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Albany, N. Y., June 2, 1890. 

This code of the laws relating to the registration of voters 

and election laws is issued pursuant to chapter 325, Laws 

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of 1890, and is intended for the guidance of officers in 
the administration of tlie election and registration laws, 
passed by the Legislature of 1890, and approved by the 
Governor. 

In addition to specific instructions intended for election 
and registration officials, forms of certificates required to be 
issued and filed in public offices, and notices to be issued 
and posted for the guidance of voters, are given. 

FRANK RICE, 

Secretary of State. 



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Fifty Voters, with Location of Election Officers. 



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each poll in each county. It shall have a perforated line running across the top so as to leave the space therein above said line one inch wide. 
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Election Laws of 1890. 


Chapter 362. 

AX ACT TO Promote the Independence of Xotp^rs at 

Pup.LTc Elections, Enforce the Secrecy of the Ballot, 

AND Provide for the Printing and I )istriihjtton of 

Ballots at Public Expense. 

Approved by the Governor ]V[ay 2, 1890. Passed, tliree-flftlis being 
present. 

7'he Peo 2 ->le of the State of New Yoeh, rejiveseiited in 
Senate and uVs^einljly^ do enact as follows: 

Section 1. All ballots cast in elections for public office 
within this State shall he printed and distributed at ])nhlic 
expense. The printing of ballots and cards of instruction for 
the voters in each conntj, and the delivery of the same to the 
clerks and election officers, as hereinafter provided, shall he 
a county charge, the payment of which shall he provided for 
in the same manner as the payment of other county expenses; 
hut the expense of printing and delivering the ballots and 
cards of instruction to bemused in local elections shall he a 
charge upon the city, town or village in which such local 
election shall he held. 

§ 2. Any convention or primary meeting, as hereinafter 
defined, held for tlie purpose of making nominations to public 
office, and also voters to the number hereinafter sj^ecified, may 
nominate candidates for public office to he filled by election 
within the State. A convention or primary meeting within the 
meaning of this act is an organized assemblage of voters or 
delegates representing a political jiarty which, at the last elec¬ 
tion before the holding of such convention or primary meeting, 


Expense of 
printing 
and distri¬ 
bution of 
ballots, etc. 


Nomination 
of candi¬ 
dates by 
party organ 
izations. 






12 


Election Laws of 1890. 


Chap. 262 . 


Certificates 
of nomina¬ 
tion. 


How exe¬ 
cuted and 
verified. 


Certificate 
made by 
committee. 


Certificates, 
where to be 
filed. 


polled at least one per centum of tlie entire vote cast in the State, 
county or other division or district for which the nomination 
is made. A committee appointed by any such convention or 
primary meeting may also make nominations to public office 
when authorized to do so by resolution duly passed by the 
convention or meeting at which such committee was ajDpointed. 

§ 3. All nominations made by such convention, committee 
or primary meeting shall be certified as follows: The certifi¬ 
cate of nomination, which shall be in writing, shall contain 
the name of the office for which each person is nominated, the 
name and residence of each such person, and if in a city the 
street number of residence and j)lace of business, if any, and 
shall designate in not more than five words, the party which 
such convention committee or primary meeting represents. 
It sliall be signed by the presiding officer and secretary of 
such convention, committee or primary meeting, who shall 
add to their signatures their respective places of residence, and 
make oath before an officer qualified to administer the same, 
that the affiants were such officers of such convention, com¬ 
mittee or primary meeting, and that said certificates and the 
statements therein contained are true to the best of their 
knowledge and belief. A certificate that such oath has been 
administered shall be made and signed by the officer before 
whom the same was taken and attached to such certificate of 
nomination. When the nomination is made by a committee, 
the certificate of nomination shall also contain a copy of the 
resolution passed at the convention or primary meeting which 
authorized the committee to make such nomination. 

§ 4. Certificates of nomination of candidates for offices to 
be filled by the voters of the entire State, or of any division 
or district greater than a county, shall be filed with the 
Secretary of State, except as in this section otherwise pro¬ 
vided. All other certificates of nomination shall be filed with 
the clerks of the respective counties wherein the officers are 
to be elected. The certificate of a nomination for member 
of assembly in the counties of Fulton and Hamilton, shall be 
filed in the office of the county clerk of Fulton county, and a 



Election Laws of 1890. 


13 


copy thereof certified by said county clerk of Fulton county 
shall be filed in the office of the county clerk of Ilaniilton 
county. The certificate of nomination for senator for the 
fifth senatorial district shall be filed in the office of the clerk 
of the city and county of 'New York, and a copy thereof 
’certified by said clerk shall be filed in the office of the county 
clerk of Richmond county. 

§ 5. Candidates for public office may be nominated other- Nomina- 

tions other 

wise than by a convention, committee or primary meeting in party o?gan- 
the manner following: A certificate of nomination containing 
the name of a candidate for the office to be filled, with such 
information as is required to be given in certificates ]3rovided 
for by section three of this act, except that the said certificate 
shall designate in not more than five words, instead of the 
party, the political or other name which the signers shall 
select, shall be signed by voters residing within the district or 
political division in and for which the officer or officers are 
to be elected, to the number of at least one thousand, when 
the nomination is for an office to be filled by the voters of 
the entire State; of at least two hundred and fifty when the 
nomination is for an office to be filled by the voters of a 
district less than the State and greater than a county (except 
the assembly district composed of Fulton and Hamilton 
counties), or by the voters of a county or city ; of at least one 
hundred when the nomination is for an office to be filled by 
the voters of an assembly district; of at least fifty when the 
nomination is for an office to be filled by all the voters of a 
ward town or village ; but when the nomination is for an 
office to be filled by the voters of the city and county of Hew 
York, or of the county of Kings or of the city of Brooklyn, 
the number of signatures so required shall not be less than 
tliree hundred, and when the nomination is for an office to be 
filled wholly or in part by the voters of only a portion of said 
city and county of Hew York, or the said county of Kings or 
of the said city of Brooklyn, less than the whole, such number Certificates, 
shall not be less than one hundred. The signatures to ^ cuted and 

• • 1 n 1 Tlx acknowl- 

certificate of nomination need not all be appended to one edged. 




14 


Election Laws of 1890. 


CuAP. 262. 


Filing 

thereof. 


Restric¬ 
tions as to 
certificates. 


Certificates 
to be pre¬ 
served. 


Open to 
inspection. 


Time within 
which certi¬ 
ficates may 
be filed. 


paper. The certificate may designate and appoint upon the 
face thereof one or more persons who for tlie purposes 
set forth in section seventeen of this act sliall represent the 
signers of said certificate. Each voter signing a certificate 
shall add to his signature his place of residence, and shall, 
before an otficer duly authorized to take acknowledgments, 
acknowledge his signature, and make oath that he is a voter, 
and has truly stated his residence. Such certificate, when 
executed and acknowledged as above prescribed, may be filed 
as provided for in section four of this act, in the same manner 
and with the same effect as a certificate of nomination made 
by a 2 )arty convention, committee or 2 :)rimary meeting. 

§ ^). !No certificate of nomination shall contain the names 
of more candidates for any office than there are Iversons to be 
elected to such office, ^^^o person shall sign more than one 
certificate of nomination for any office. 

§ 7. The Secretary of State shall cause to be j^reserved in 
his office all certificates of nomination filed therein under the 
provisions of this act; and each county clerk shall cause to 
be preserved in his office all certificates of nomination filed 
therein under the provisions of tliis act. All such certificates 
shall be open to public inspection, under proper regulations, 
to be made by the officers with Avhom the same are filed. 

§ 8. AVhen nominations are made l)y a convention, com¬ 
mittee or ])rimary meeting, as provided for in section three 
of this act, the certificates of nomination to be filed Avith the 
Secretary of State shall be filed not more than forty nor less 
than twenty-five days before the day fixed by kiAV for the 
election of the persons in nomination; and the certificates of 
nomination herein directed to be filed with a county clerk 
shall be filed not more than thirty nor less than twenty days 
before election. Certificates of nomination otherwise than 
l:>y a convention, committee or primary meeting, made accord¬ 
ing to the provisions of section five of this act, shall, Avheii 
required to be filed Avith tJie Secretary of State, be filed not 
more than forty nor less than fifteen days before election; 
and when required to be filed with the county clerk, shall be 




Election Laws of 1890. 


15 


filed not more than thirty nor less than twelve days before 
election. 

§ 9. The Secretary of State shall immediately, upon the 
expiration of the time within which certificates of nomination 
may be filed with him, certify to the county clerk of each 
county within which any of the voters may by law vote for 
a candidate or candidates named in the certificate, the name 
and description of each of such candidates, together with the 
other details mentioned in the certificate of nomination so 
filed with the Secretary of State. 

§ 10. At least six days before an election to fill any public 
office, the county clerk of each county shall cause to be pub¬ 
lished in not less than two nor more than four newspapers 
within the county, a list of all nominations to office certified 
to him under the j^rovisions of this act. Such publication 
shall contain the name and residence and if in a city the street 
number of residence and of i)lace of business if any, and the 
party or other designation of each candidate. In case of 
municipal elections such publication of the names of candi¬ 
dates for municipal office shall be made in newspapers which 
are j)ublished within the municipality where the election is 
to be held. One-of such publications shall be made in a news¬ 
paper which advocates the principles of the political party 
that at the last preceding election cast the largest number of 
votes in the State; and another of such j)ublications shall be 
made in a newspaper which advocates the principles of the 
political party that at the last preceding election cast the next 
largest number of votes in the State. The county clerk in 
selecting the resj)ective papers for such publication, shall 
select those which, according to the best information he can 
obtain, have the largest circulation within such city or county. 
In making additional publications the county clerk shall keep 
in view the object of giving information, so far as possible 
to the voters of all political jiarties; and in no event shall 
such additional publications be made in two newspapers 
representing the same political party. The county clerk 
shall make such publications daily in counties where daily 


Chap. 263. 


Duty of 
Secretary of 
State upon 
expiration 
of time. 


Publication 
of list of 
nomina¬ 
tions. 


Selection of 
news¬ 
papers. 


Daily publi¬ 
cations. 




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Election Laws of 1890. 


CUAP. 262. 


Printed lists 
to be sent 
town clerks 
and alder¬ 
men. 


Postiiift 
thereof in 
election 
districts. 


Provisions, 
when not to 
apply to 
cities. 


Nomina¬ 
tion, when 
void l)y 
declination. 


Notice to 
other candi¬ 
dates. 


iiewspaj^ers are published ; but if there be no daily newsj^aper 
published within the county, one publication in each news¬ 
paper shall be sufficient. Should the county clerk find it 
impracticable to make the publication six days before election 
day, in counties where no daily newspaj^er is printed, he shall 
make the same at the earliest possible day thereafter. 

§ 11. The county clerk of each county shall, at least six 
days before election day, send to the town clerk of each town 
and to the alderman of each ward in any city therein, printed 
lists, at least five and not more than ten copies for each elec¬ 
tion district in such town or ward, containing the name and 
residence, and if in a city the street, number of residence 
and of place of business, if any, and party or other designa¬ 
tion of each candidate, nominated as hereinbefore provided, 
to be voted for by tlie voters of the respective towns and 
wards. Such lists shall at least three days before the day of 
election be conspicuously posted by such town clerk or aider- 
man ill one or more public places in each election district of 
each town or ward, one of which shall be at the place where 
such election is to be held. The provisions of this section 
shall not apply to any city where the jiublication required by 
section ten of this act shall be made in two or more daily 
newspapers published in such city. 

§ 12. Whenever any person nominated for public office as 
in this act provided shall, at least twelve days before the day 
of election, if he shall have been nominated as provided in 
section three of this act, or at least ten days before the day 
of election, if he shall have been nominated as provided in 
section five of this act, notify the officer Avith whom the 
original certificate of his nomination was filed, in a writing 
signed by him and duly acknowledged, that he declines such 
nomination, the same shall be void and his name shall not be 
]3rinted uj^on the ballots. The officer to whom such notifica¬ 
tion is given shall fortliAvith inform, by mail or otherwise, 
one or more persons whose names are attached to the orio-inal 
certificate of nomination, that such nomination has been 
declined. 




Election Laws of 1890. 


17 


§ 13. All certificates of nomination which are in apparent 
conformity with the provisions of this act shall be deemed to certificates, 
be valid, unless objection thereto shall be duly made in writing 
within three days after the filing of the same. In case such Proceeding 

. in case of 

objection is made, notice thereof shall forthwith be mailed to objections 

tncr6to. 

all candidates who may be affected thereby, addressed to them 
at their respective places of residence, as given in the certifi¬ 
cate of nomination. The officer with whom the original cer¬ 
tificate was filed shall in the first instance pass upon the 
validity of such objection, and his decision shall be final, 
unless an order shall be made in the matter by a court of 
competent jurisdiction, or by a justice of the supreme court 
at chambers, on or before the Wednesday preceding the elec¬ 
tion. Such order may be made summarily upon application 
of any party interested and upon such notice as the court or 
judge may require. 

§ II. Should any person so nominated die before election vacancies, 

how filled. 

day, or decline the nomination, as in this act provided, or 
should any certificate of nomination be insufficient or 
inoperative, the vacancy or vacancies thus occasioned may be 
filled in the manner required for original nominations. If 
the original nomination was made by a party convention 
which had delegated to a committee the power to fill vacan¬ 
cies, such committee may, upon the occurring of such 
vacancies, proceed to fill the same. The chairman and 
secretary of such committee shall thereupon make and file 
with the proper officer a certificate setting forth the cause of 
the vacancy, the name of the person nominated, the office 
for wdiich he was nominated, the name of the person for 
whom the new nominee is to be substituted, the fact that the 
committee was authorized to fill vacancies, and such further 
information as is required to be given in an original certifi¬ 
cate of nomination. The certificate so made shall be 
executed, acknowledged and sworn to in the manner 
prescribed for the original certificate of nomination, and 
shall upon being filed at least eight days before election, 
have the same force and effect as an original certificate of 
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18 


Election Laws of 1890. 


Chap. 2G2. 
Duty of 
Secretary 
of State 
upon filling 
of vacan¬ 
cies. 


Constitu¬ 
tional 
anieiid- 
inents, etc. 


Publica¬ 

tion. 


Duty of 
county 
clerk m pro¬ 
viding and 
printing 
ballots. 


Ballots with 
names of 
offices only. 

Sample 

ballots. 


nomination. When such certificate shall be filed with the 
Secretary of State he shall, in certifying the nominations to 
the various county clerks, insert the name of the person who 
has thus been nominated to fill a vacancy in place of that of 
the original nominee; and in the event that he has already 
sent forward his certificate, he shall forthwith certify to the 
clerks of the proper counties the name and description of the 
person so nominated to fill a vacancy, the office he is 
nominated for, together with the other details mentioned in 
the certificate of nomination so filed with the Secretary of 
State, and the name of the person for whom such nominee 
is substituted. 

§ 15. Whenever a proposed constitutional amendment or 
other question is to be submitted to the people of the State 
for pojDular vote, the Secretary of State shall duly, and not 
less than fifteen days before election, certify the same to the 
clerk of each county of the State, and the clerk of each 
county shall include the proposition or question to be sub¬ 
mitted, substantially as it will appear in the ballot to be 
used on election day, in the publication provided for by 
section ten of this act. 

§ 16. Except as in this act otherwise provided, it shall be 
the duty of the county clerk of each county to provide 
printed ballots for every election of public ofiicers in which 
voters or any of the voters within the county participated, 
and to cause to be printed in the appropriate ballot the name 
of every candidate whose nomination has been certified to or 
filed with the county clerk in the manner 2 )rovided for in 
tliis act; he sliall also provide for every such election, 
printed ballots containing only the names of the offices to be 
filled at the election. Sample ballots printed upon paper of 
a different color from the official ballots but in tlie form of 
tliose to be used on election day, each containing the names 
of the candidates which are to be printed upon the appro¬ 
priate official ballot, shall be printed and in possession of the 
county clerk or other officers or boards charged with the duty 
of preparing such ballots, seven days before the day of elec- 




Election La ws of 1890. 


19 


tion, subject to public inspection. Tlie official ballots shall 
be printed and in possession of the county clerk, or such 
other officers or boards, at least four days before election and 
subject also to inspection by the candidates and their agents. 

§ 17. Each ballot shall have a perforated line running 
across the top so as to leave the space thereon al)ove said line 
one inch in width; and upon the portion above the line, 
which shall be known as the stub,” nothing shall be printed, 
except the printed number hereinafter mentioned. Upon 
each ballot below the stub, shall be printed, in brevier lower 
case type, the name of each office to be filled at the then 
ensuing election, and except upon the ballots not containing 
the names of candidates in brevier capitals tyj)e the names of 
such candidates therefor respectively (not more for any office 
than one elector is entitled to vote for) as may have been 
certified therefor in the certificates hereinbefore in section 
three provided made by the conventions, committees or 
primary meetings respecting the same party, or as may have 
been certified therefor in the certificates hereinbefore in 
section five provided, bearing the same political or other 
name. But no name or names of any candidate or candidates 
shall be placed upon a ticket put in nomination by certifi¬ 
cate as provided for in section five, except the name or 
names specified in said certificate of nomination without the 
written approval of the person or persons designated and 
appointed in said certificate as provided in that section, but 
such approval shall be made at least twelve days before 
election. Besides the kind of ballots containing only the 
names of the offices to be filled at the election as rer[uired by 
section sixteen of this act, there shall be as many separate 
kinds of ballots as there are different political parties 
represented by certificates as provided by section three of 
this act and as there are different political or other names 
represented by certificates as provided by section five of this 
act. There shall also be as many different kinds of ballots as 
may be required to comply with the directions hereinbefore 
authorized of the person or jDersons designated and appointed 


Chap. 262. 
Official 
ballots. 


Style of 
printing and 
contents. 


Approval of 
names of 
certain can- 
dates 
thereon. 


Kinds of 
ballots. 




20 


Election Laws of 1890. 


Chap. 262. 


Name of 
office, when 
only 
printed. 


Size of 
ballots. 


Numbering 
of stubs. 


Indorse¬ 

ments. 


(Quality and 
tint of paper 
and ink, etc. 


Names of 
local candi¬ 
dates on 
ballots. 


Form for 
folding. 


as provided in section five of tliis act upon certificates of 
nomination. AVlien nominations are made by convention, 
committee or primary meeting as prescribed liy section three 
of this act, and candidates are not named for all places on the 
ballot, the places for which nominations are not made shall 
be left blank with the name of the office only printed on the 
ballot. All ballots provided for the same polling place shall 
be of uniform length. Each ballot shall be six inches wide, 
and of such length below the stub as to allow three-eighths of 
an inch in the length of the ballot for the name of each 
office, and the same space for the name of each candidate 
therefor for whom one elector may be entitled to vote. The 
names of offices and candidates shall be in a single column, 
except the names of candidates for presidential electors shall 
be in two colums.* The stubs of each kind of ballots for 
each election district shall be numbered consecutively by 
printed numbers thereon. On the back of each ballot shall 
be printed in type known as great primer Roman condensed 
capitals, the indorsement “ official ballot for and 

after the word “ for ” shall follow the designation of the poll- 
ing-place for which the ballot is prepared, the date of the 
election, and a fac simile of the signature of the county 
clerk. The ballot shall contain no caption or other indorse¬ 
ment, except as in this section jirovided. Each county clerk 
shall use precisely the same quality and tint of paper, kind of 
quality and tint of plain black ink for all ballots 
provided by him to be used at one election. AVhenever 
candidates are to be voted for only by the voters of a par¬ 
ticular district, town, village, city or county, the names of 
such candidates shall not be printed on any other ballots than 
those provided for use in such district, town, village, city or 
county respectively. The ballots shall be of such form and 
the indorsement thereon so printed that they may be folded 
in the middle lengthwise and then crosswise, in such a way 
that the stub of each ballot can be removed without unfold- 


* So in the original. 






Election Laws of 1890, 


21 


ing the ballot or exposing any of its contents, and that when 
so folded the whole of the indorsement shall be visible. 

There shall be bnt one ballot-box at each polling-place for Baiiot-box. 
receiving all ballots cast for candidates for offices. 

§ 18. The connty clerk of each county, or other public Number of 

f ^ ballots to be 

officers or board charged by this act with the duty of printing 
and providing ballots, shall provide for each election district 
in the county, two hundred ballots of each kind for every 
fifty, or fraction of fifty, voters registered at the last pre¬ 
ceding election in the district. If there is no registry in the 
districts, such ballots shall be provided to the number of two 
hundred of each kind for every fifty, or fraction of fifty, 
voters who voted at the last election in the district. When a 
district shall be divided or the boundaries changed, the county 
clerk or such other public officers or boards must ascertain, as 
nearly as possible, the number of voters in the new district 
or districts, and provide therefor a sufficient number of 
ballots in the above proportion. 

§ 1 9. Whenever it shall appear by affidavit that an error Errors and 

^ . . omissions, 

or omission has occurred in the publication of the names or correction 
description of the candidates nominated for office, or in the 
printing of the sample or official ballots, the supreme court 
or a justice thereof may, upon application of any voter, by 
order, require the county clerk or other public officers or 
boards charged with the duty in respect to which such error 
or omission has occurred, to correct such error, or to show 
cause why such error should not be corrected. The county 
clerk or such other public officers or boards shall also upon 
his or their own motion correct without delay any patent 
error in the ballots which he or they may discover or which 
shall be brought to his or their attention, and which can be 
corrected without interfering with the timely distribution of 
the ballots as hereinafter provided. 

§ 20. Tlie county clerks of the various counties in the State, 
shall, prior to an election, cause to be delivered to each of city^cSks. 
the town clerks within their respective counties, the proper 
number of ballots provided for the use of the voters of said 




22 


Election Laws of 1890. 


Chap. 'itQ'i. 


Receipts. 


Duty of 
town and 
city clerks 
on election 
day. 


Town and 
city clerks, 
when to pro 

f iare and 
nrnish 
ballots. 


Unollicial 
ballots, use 
of, when 
permitted, 
etc. 


town at such election. The same shall be sent in sealed 
packages, one of each kind, for each election district of said 
town, with marks on the outside of each clearly stating the 
polling place for which it is intended, together with the number 
of ballots inclosed. They shall be delivered to the town 
clerks on the Saturday before election day. Ballots to be 
used in cities shall be delivered at the time and in the manner 
above provided to the city clerks of the respective cities. 
Receipts for ballots thus delivered shall be given by the town, 
or city clerk who receives them, and filed with the county 
clerk who shall also keep a record of the time when, and the 
manner in which each of said packages was sent. The town, 
and city clerks receiving such j)ackages, shall, at the opening 
of tlie polls on election day, cause the same to be delivered, 
with the seals unbroken, to the inspectors of election of the 
various election districts as designated on tlie outside of the 
packages respectively, and shall take receipts therefor from 
said inspectors, which shall be placed on file in their respect¬ 
ive offices. 

§ 21. If the ballots to be furnished to any town or city 
clerk, as herein provided, shall not be delivered at the time 
above mentioned, or if after delivery they shall be destroyed 
or stolen, it shall be the duty of the said clerk of such town 
or city to cause other ballots to be prepared as nearly in the 
form prescribed in section seventeen as practicable, but with¬ 
out the indorsement, and upon receipt of ballots thus pre¬ 
pared from said clerk, accompanied by a statement under 
oath that the same have been so prepared and furnished by 
liiin, and that the original ballots have so failed to be received, 
or have been so destroyed or stolen, the inspectors of election 
shall cause the ballots so substituted to be used at the elec¬ 
tion. If from any cause, neither the official ballots nor 
ballots prepared by the town or city clerk as herein prescribed 
shall be ready for distribution at any polling place, or if the 
supply of ballots shall be exhausted before the polls are 
closed, unofficial ballots, printed or written, made as nearly 
as possible in the form of the oflicial ballots, may be used. 




Election Laws of 1890. 


23 


Whenever a candidate for any office, whose name is printed 
on the official ballot, shall have died, shall be or become 
ineligible, or shall have withdrawn before election day, voters 
may nse unofficial ballots in voting to fill the office for which 
such deceased, ineligible or withdrawn candidate was nomi¬ 
nated, and the name of the deceased, ineligible or withdrawn 
candidate shall be considered as having been erased from the 
official ballot; but such unofficial ballot shall contain only 
the name of the person voted for, in lieu of the deceased, 
ieligible* or withdrawn candidate, and under the designation 
of the office for which such person is a candidate. 

§ 22. The inspectors of election in each election district of 
the State (except in districts where all of them are appointed) 
shall, immediately after taking their oath of office, as pre¬ 
scribed by law, appoint two of their number to serve as ballot 
clerks during the election. The inspectors who were elected 
as such shall appoint one ballot clerk, and the inspectors who 
were appointed as such shall appoint the other ballot clerk. 
In each election district, except a district in which all of the 
inspectors of election are appointed, the number of inspectors 
shall be five, and in every such district in which there shall 
be a less number than five, the balance of the five offices of 
inspectors of election in such district shall be deemed to be 
vacant, and shall be filled as vacancies in such offices as now 
provided by law. Immediately upon the filling of such 
vacancies in an election district, after the passage of this act, 
and the qualifications of the five inspectors of election, they 
shall appoint two of their number to be ballot clerks as 
hereinbefore provided. In districts where inspectors are not 
elected, two ballot clerks shall be appointed, and their 
appointment certified at the same time and in the same 
manner as now provided for in case of inspectors, except 
that ballot clerks to serve at the fall election of eighteen 
hundred and ninety, shall be appointed and their appoint¬ 
ment certified, at least ten days before the day fixed for such 


Chap. 262 . 


Ballot 
clerks, 
designation 
of, by 
inspectors. 


Inspectors, 
number of, 
etc. 


Appoint¬ 
ment of 
ballot 
clerks. 


So in the original. 





24 


Election Laws of 1890. 


Chap. 262. 
Vacancies 
in office. 


Appoint¬ 
ments, how 
governed. 


Voting 
booths and 
supplies 
for. 


Guard rail. 


Arrange¬ 
ment of 
booths and 
ballot- 
boxes. 


Construc¬ 
tion of 
booths. 


Admission 
within Jail. 


election. Yacancies in said office shall be filled, and all 
appointments made to fill such vacancies shall he certified as 
now provided for hj law in the case of inspectors. In appoint¬ 
ing or designating ballot clerks as herein jirovided, one of 
them shall be taken in each election district from the political 
party that polled the largest number of votes on state issues 
at the last preceding election, and the other from the party 
that polled on state issues the next largest number. The 
term “ ballot clerks,” when used herein, shall be deemed to 
refer to the persons so designated or appointed as such as 
aforesaid. 

§ 23. All officers upon whom is imposed by law the duty 
of designating polling places, shall j)rovide in each polling 
place designated by them a sufficient number of voting 
booths or compartments, which shall be furnished with such 
supplies and conveniences, including shelves, pens, pen¬ 
holders, ink, blotting paper, pencils and mucilage, as will 
enable the voter to prepare his ballot for voting, and in which 
voters may prepare their ballots screened from observation 
as to the manner in which they do so; and a guard rail shall 
be so constructed and placed that only such persons as are 
inside said rail can approach within six feet of the ballot-boxes, 
and of such voting booths or compartments. The arrange¬ 
ment shall be such that the voting booths or compartments 
can only be reached by passing within said guard rail. They 
shall be in plain view of the election officers, and both they 
and the ballot-boxes shall be in plain view of those just out¬ 
side the guard rail. Each of said booths or compartments 
shall have four sides inclosed. One side in front to open 
and shut as a door swinging outward. Each side of each 
booth or compartment shall be at least six feet high and the 
door shall extend to within two feet of the fioor. Each booth 
or compartment shall be at least three feet square and shall 
contain a shelf which shall be at least one foot wide extending 
across one side of the booth or compartment at a convenient 
height for writing. IIo persons other than the election 
officers and the watchers provided by law and those admitted 


Election Laws of 1890. 


25 


for the purpose of voting as hereinafter provided, shall be 
permitted within said rail, except by authority of the election 
officers to keep order and enforce the law, and except in the 
contingency mentioned in the first sentence of section twenty- 
eight of this act. The number of such voting booths or Number of 
compartments shall not be less than one for every fifty voters 
who voted at the last preceding election in the district. The Baiiot-box, 
officers who are charged with the duty of providing voting nished. 
booths or compartments shall also furnish for each polling 
place in their respective towns and cities, a ballot-box which 
shall be large enough to properly receive and hold the ballots 
to be cast for candidates for office in conformity with the 
l)rovisions of this act. In the city and county of Hew York Booths, 

. ^ ” etc., in New 

the board of police commissioners, and in the city of Brooklyn 

the board of elections shall provide such guard rails, ballot-box 

and voting booths or compartments. The expense thereof Expense. 

shall in all cases be a public charge, to be provided for in the 

same manner as other election expenses. On or before the Alteration 

^ of election 

first day of September in the year eighteen hundred and districts, 
ninety, and in each year thereafter the officers now charged 
by law with the division or alteration of election districts 
shall alter or divide the existing election districts, whenever 
necessary, in such manner that each election district shall 
contain not more than three hundred voters. 

S 24. It shall be the duty of the ballot clerks to deliver Duty of 

^ . ballot 

ballots to qualified voters, and they shall at all times be under clerks. 

the supervision of the board of inspectors. The ballots shall 

be kept in plain view within the polling jdace, and as near as 

possible to the place where the ballot-box is stationed. At 

the opening of the polls the inspectors shall open the packages 

containing the ballots, and place the ballots in charge of the 

ballot clerks. Each qualified voter before receiving his Application 

^ for ballots 

ballots from the ballot clerks, shall announce his name to 
the election officers. His name shall be noted by the poll thereupon, 
clerks, and each voter’s nam.e shall be numbered consecutively, 
by the poll clerks with the number upon the stub of the 
ballots delivered to him and in the order of the respective 




26 


Election Laws of 1890. 


Chap. 262. 


Challenges. 


Chal¬ 

lengers. 


Polling 
place, how 
arranged. 


Prepara¬ 
tion of bal¬ 
lots by 
voter. 


Paster bal¬ 
lots, use of, 
etc. 


applications for ballots to the ballot clerks. The ballot clerks 
shall thereupon deliver to the voter, and the voter shall 
receive and take with him into the booth or compartment 
one of each kind of ballots which shall have been furnished 
for use at such polling place. But before any voter shall 
receive said ballots and in the presence and view of the voter 
each of said ballot clerks, or a ballot clerk and an inspector 
shall write his initials upon the stub of each of said ballots; 
but the stubs of all ballots delivered to one voter at one time 
shall have the initials of the same persons thereon. When 
any person shall make application for ballots his right to vote 
at that poll and election may be challenged, and such pro¬ 
ceedings shall thereupon be had before the inspectors as the 
law now prescribes in case of challenge. If the person so 
applying is not entitled to vote, no ballot shall be delivered 
to him. Any person may also be challenged, as now provided 
by law, when he shall offer his ballot to the inspectors. 
A reasonable number of challengers, representing each 
political party, shall be permitted to remain just outside the 
guard rail where they can plainly see what is done within 
the polling place, except within said booths or compartments. 
The said polling place shall be so arranged that every part 
thereof except the inside of said booths or compartments may 
be in full view of said challengers and watchers. 

§ 25. On receiving his ballots, the voter shall forthwith, 
and without leaving the inclosed space, retire alone to one of the 
voting booths or compartments so provided ; and shall prepare 
his ballots. The voter may write or paste upon his ballot 
the name of any person for whom he desires to vote for any 
office. Any voter may take with him into the voting-booth 
or compartment, a printed ballot of his own selection or 
preparation, to be known as a paster ballot, containing the 
names of all the offices to be filled and of the candidates 
therefor for whom he desires to vote, which paster ballot may 
be gummed on the back thereof, and the voter may paste the 
Avhole of such paster ballot on any of the official ballots 
below the stub. Any name so written or pasted upon the 




Election Laws of 1890. 


27 


ballot shall be deemed the choice of the voter, notwithstanding 
the name of another candidate for the same office may be 
upon the original ballot without being erased, covered or con¬ 
cealed by the writing or paster. All pasters sliall be of 
white paper and must be printed in type uniform with 
that required by this act to be used upon the ballots and 
shall be printed in plain black ink. A paster shall be so 
attached to the ballot tliat when the ballot is folded no portion 
of such paster shall be visible. In preparing his ballot 
any voter sliall be at liberty to use or copy any unofficial 
sample ballot to assist him in preparing the official ballot. 
After preparing his ballot, and before leaving the voting 
booth or compartment, the voter shall fold all the ballots 
delivered to him in the middle, lengthwise and then cross¬ 
wise ; but in such a way that the contents of the ballot shall 
be concealed and the stubs can be removed without exposing 
any of tlie contents of the ballots and shall keep the same so 
folded until he has delivered the same to the election officers 
as in this section provided. He shall then vote in the manner 
provided by law forthwith and before leaving the inclosed 
space ; but before his vote shall be received the voter’s name 
and the number upon the stubs of his ballots shall be called 
out and the number upon such stubs shall correspond with 
the number noted against his name by the poll clerks as 
hereinbefore provided. The inspectors of election shall 
remove tlie stub from each ballot voted in plain view of the 
voter and without unfolding or disclosing the contents of 
the ballot, before the same is deposited in the ballot-box. 
The voter shall thereupon deliver to the inspectors the ballots 
not voted by him but folded in precisely the same manner 
as the ballots voted and the inspectors shall remove from each 
such ballot its stub, and the unvoted ballots shall be deposited 
in a box which shall be prepared for that purpose, and which 
shall be kept locked until after the canvass of the votes, but 
which shall be provided with an aperture for depositing the 
ballots therein, and after the votes cast are all canvassed all 
ballots which were so deposited in such box shall be burned 


Chap. 262, 


Folding of 
ballots. 


Manner of 
voting and 
receiving 
votes. 


Unvoted 
ballots, de¬ 
livery and 
disposal 
thereof. 



28 


Election Laws of 1890. 


Chap. 262. 


Preparation 
ot iinofticial 
ballots. 


Occupancy 
of booth 
and in¬ 
closed 
space, re¬ 
strictions 
as to. 


Duty of in¬ 
spectors. 


Spoiled 
ballots, re¬ 
placing of. 


Preserva¬ 
tion and 
return of 
unvoted 
ballots and 
stubs. 


Statement 
accounting 
for ballots. 


by the inspectors of election without any examination of their 
contents. When an unofficial ballot is used in the cases pro¬ 
vided for by the last two sentences in section twenty-one of 
this act, the person using it shall, before voting tlie same, 
retire to one of the voting booths or compartments where he 
shall prepare such ballots for voting. 

§ 26. Kot more than one person shall be permitted to 
occupy the same voting booth or compartment at one time, 
except as provided for in section twenty-eight of this act, and 
no person shall remain in or occupy any such booth or com¬ 
partment less than three minutes and in no case longer than 
ten minutes, when all the other booths or compartments are 
occupied. ISTo person who has once voted, other than an 
election officer or watcher, shall be permitted to re-enter said 
inclosed space during the election, except to aid another in 
preparing his ballot as hereinafter provided, and no voter, 
not such officer or watcher shall be permitted to remain in 
said inclosed space longer than is necessary for him to pro¬ 
cure, prepare and deposit his ballot, as hereinbefore provided. 
It shall be the duty of the board of inspectors to see that the 
provisions of this section are properly observed. 

§ 27. If any voter spoils a ballot he may obtain another full 
set and so on successively not exceeding four full sets in all, 
upon returning to the ballot clerks the set of ballots containing 
the spoiled ballots. In obtaining a set of ballots to replace a 
spoiled set the name of the voter shall be given and his num¬ 
ber noted in the manner hereinbefore provided when the 
voter’s original application for ballots is made to the ballot 
clerks. The ballots tlms returned shall be canceled and 
together with those not distributed to voters shall be pre¬ 
served ; and with the record of ballots delivered to voters by 
the ballot clerks and the stubs of the ballots so delivered shall 
be secured in a package sealed and sent to the county clerk or 
other public officers or boards by whom such ballots were 
prepared, on the day after election. The ballot clerks shall 
also at the same time, file with the county clerks of their 
respective counties or other public officers or boards by whom 




Election La ws of 1890. 


29 


such ballots were prepared, a statement in writing, showing 
the number of ballots of each kind voted, the number of 
ballots of each kind delivered to voters, the number of spoiled 
ballots of each kind, and the number of ballots of each kind 
not delivered to voters, and the number of detached stubs 
returned, identifying and specifying the same. Any ballot 
clerk wlio shall fail to thus account, fully and particularly 
for all official ballots placed in his charge, shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor. 

§ 28. Any voter who declares under oath to the inspectors 
of election that, by reason of physical disability, he is unable 
to prepare his ballot without assistance, shall be permitted to 
bring with him to such booth or compartment a person of his 
own selection, who may retire with such disabled voter to 
the booth or compartment and assist him in the preparation 
of the ballot. The poll-clerks shall make a memorandum on 
the poll-list of every instance when an oath was administered 
to a voter as herein provided, stating briefly what facts were 
sworn to, the name of the affiant and the name of the 23erson 
or persons who aided the voter in preparing his ballot. No 
voter shall divulge to anyone within the j)olling j)lace the 
name of any candidate for whom he intends to vote, nor shall 
he ask for or receive the assistance of any person within the 
polling 2 )lace in the preparation of his ballot excej^t as j)re- 
scribed by this section. No person who assists a voter in 
the preparation of his ballot, as herein provided, shall in any 
manner request, or persuade, or induce, or seek to persuade 
or induce such voter to vote any particular ticket or for any 
particular candidate or candidates; nor shall such j^erson 
reveal to another the name of any candidate for whom the 
voter has voted, or anything that took place while he was 
assisting such voter in preparing said ballot for voting. 

§ 29. No inspector of election shall deposit in a ballot- 
box, or permit any other j^erson to deposit in a ballot-box, on 
electionday any ballot which is not properly indorsed, or upon 
the stub of which the initials of the ballot clerks, or of a ballot 
clerk and an inspector, did not aj^pear when presented to bo 


Chap. 262. 


Failure to 
account. 


Assistance 
for disabled 
voters. 


Divulging 
names and 
receiving 
assistance 
prohibited. 


Assistant 
not to in¬ 
fluence 
voter, or 
reveal 
names 
voted. 


Deposit of 
certain bal¬ 
lots in box 
prohibited. 




30 


Election Laws of 1890. 

Chap. 262 . except ill tliG casGS providGcl for in sGction twGnty-onG 

of this act. 

Cards of § 30. TliG county dork of oacli county or other public 
instruction. charged with tliG duty of providing the 

ballots shall cause to be printed and furnished as hereinafter 
provided in large type, on cards in English and in such other 
. languages as he or they may deem necessary, instructions for 
the guidance of voters in preparing their ballots. Twelve 
such cards, each printed in all the languages so determined 
upon shall be furnished to the board of inspectors of election 
of each election district, at the same time and in the same 
roBting manner as the printed ballots. The board of inspectors of 
elections shall post not less than one of such cards in each 
place or compartment provided for the preparation of ballots, 
and not less than three of such cards elsewhere in and about 
°”"ted d polling places upon the day of election. Said cards shall 
contents, printed in large, clear type, and shall contain full instruc¬ 
tions to the voters as to what should be done: (1) To obtain 
ballots for voting; (2) To prepare the ballots for deposit in 
the ballot-boxes; (3) To obtain a new ballot in the place of 
one spoiled by accident or mistake: Said cards shall also con¬ 
tain a copy of sections thirty-two, thirty-three and thirty-five 
of this act. 

Canvass of § 31, TliG votes for the several candidates sliall be can- 

votes. ^ 

vassed in the order in which they appear upon the several 
ballots. Ko ballot that has not the printed official indorse¬ 
ment shall be counted, except such as are voted in accordance 
with the provisions of section twenty-one of this act. All 
ballots that are defective in whole or in part, shall be marked 
‘‘ defective,” and shall be preserved and filed as provided for 
in section twenty-seven of this act. 

pSifbitS^* § 32. No person shall (1) falsely make, or make oatli to, or 
fraudulently deface, or fraudulently destroy any certificate 
of nomination, or any part thereof; or (2) file or receive for 
filing afiy certificate of nomination knowing the same or any 
part thereof to be falsely made ; or (3) suppress any certifi¬ 
cate of nomination which has been duly filed, or any part 



Election Laws of 1890 , 


31 


thereof ; or (4) forge or falsely make the official indorsement 
of any ballot. Every person violating any of the provisions 
of this section shall be deemed guilty of a felony and upon 
conviction thereof shall he punished by imprisonment in 
state prison not less than one year nor more than five years. 

§ 33. No person shall during the election remove or destroy 
any of the supplies or other conveniences placed in the 
booths or compartments for the purposes of enabling the 
voter to prepare his ballot, nor shall any person prior to or 
on the day of election deface or destroy any list of candi¬ 
dates posted in accordance with the provisions of this act. 
No person shall, during an election, remove, tear down, or 
deface the cards printed for the instruction of voters. Every 
person willfully violating any of the provisions of this sec¬ 
tion shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 

§ 34. Every public officer upon whom any duty is imjDOsed 
by this act, who violates his said duty, or who neglects or 
omits to perform the same, shall he deemed guilty of a mis¬ 
demeanor ; and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished 
by imprisonment in the county jail or penitentiary for a term 
of not less than six months and not more than three years, 
or by a fine of not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, 
and not more than three thousand dollars, or by both such 
fine and imprisonment. Any person having charge of official 
ballots who shall destroy, conceal or suppress them, excejDt as 
in this act permitted, shall be guilty of a felony, and upon 
conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in 
state prison not less than one year nor more than five years. 
Any person who has undertaken to deliver official ballots to 
any city, town or village clerk or inspector, and neglects or 
refuses to do so, shall he guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon 
conviction thereof, shall be punished by. imprisonment in the 
county jail for not less than six months nor more than one 
year. Any election officer or watcher who shall reveal to 
another person the name of any candidate for whom a voter 
has voted, or who shall communicate to another liis opinion, 
belief or impression as to how or for whom a voter has voted. 


Chap. 262. 


Violations, 

felony. 


Certain acts 
prohibited. 


Violations, 

misde¬ 

meanor. 


Penalty for 
neglect of 
duty, by 
public 
officer. 


For destroy¬ 
ing or sup¬ 
pressing 
ballots. 


For neglect 
to deliver 
ballots. 


For reveal¬ 
ing names 
voted by 
voters, etc. 




32 


CuAP. 262. 


Election¬ 

eering. 


Removal 
and show¬ 
ing of bal¬ 
lots. 


Receiving 
and deliver¬ 
ing ballots, 
restriction 
on. 


Return of 

unvoted 

ballots. 


Misde¬ 

meanor. 


Proviso. 


Employes 
entitled to 
absent 
themselves 
to vote. 


Election Laws of 1890, 

shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, 
shall he punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not 
less than six months nor more than one year. 

§ 35. Ko person shall do any electioneering on election 
day within any polling place, or in any public street or room^ 
or in a public manner, within one hundred and fifty feet of 
any polling place. Ko person shall remove any official ballot 
from any"" polling place before the closing of polls, m 
person shall show his ballot, after it is prepared for voting, 
to any person in such a way as to reveal the contents, nor 
shall any person solicit the voter to show the same; nor shall 
any person (except an inspector of election) receive fi om 
any voter a ballot prepared for voting. N'o voter shall receive 
an official ballot from any other person than one of the ballot 
clerks having charge of the ballots, nor shall any person 
other than such ballot clerks deliver an official ballot to such 
voter. No voter shall place any mark upon his ballot by 
means of which it can be identified as the one voted by him. 
Every voter who does not vote or deliver, in the manner 
hereinbefore and in section twenty-five of this act provided, 
the ballots received by him from the ballot clerks, shall, 
before leaving the polling place or going outside the guard 
rail, return each such ballot to the ballot clerks. Whoever 
shall violate any provision of this section shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor. But nothing herein contained 
shall prevent any person from receiving or delivering an 
unofficial sample ballot, or from receiving, delivering and 
voting an unofficial ballot in the contingencies provided 
against by section twenty-one of this act. 

§ 36. Any person entitled to vote at a general election, 
held within this state, shall, on the day of such election, be 
entitled to absent himself from any service or employment 
in which he is then engaged or employed, for a period of two 
hours between the time of opening and the time of closing 
the polls; and such voter shall not, because of so absent¬ 
ing himself, be liable to any penalty, nor shall any deduction 
be made on account of such absence from his usual salary or 




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33 


wages. Provided, however, that application shall be made 
for such leave of absence prior to the day of election. The Hours 

. therefor. 

employer may specify the hours during which such employe 
may absent himself as aforesaid. Any person or corporation 
who shall refuse to an employe the privilege hereby conferred, |emea^?' 
or who shall subject an employe to a penalty or reduction of 
wages because of the exercise of such privilege, or who 
shall, directly or indirectly, violate the provisions of this act, 
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 

§ 37. All ballots to be used in the city of 'New York shall 
be prepared by the board of police commissioners of said fyn,pjr'^' 
city, from the certificates on file in the office of the county SnSistri- 
clerk of the county of JSTew York, and all ballots to be used 
in the city of Brooklyn, shall be prepared by the boards of 
elections, of said city, from certificates on file in the ofiice of 
the county clerk of the county of Kings. Such ballots in 
sealed packages indorsed as hereinbefore provided, shall be 
distributed among the election districts in said city by said 
boards respectively, instead of by the city clerk; and receipts 
taken therefor and filed in the ofiice of said boards respect¬ 
ively; and instead of a fac simile of the signature of the 
county clerk upon the back, they shall contain a fac simile 
of the signature of the president of the board of police 
commissioners when they are to be used in New York city, 
and a fac simile of th^ signature of the president of the board 
of elections when they are to be used in the city of Brooklyn. 

§ 38. The provisions of this act shall apply to town and 
village elections, except in the following particulars: When- 
ever the word “ clerk ” is used in this act it shall be construed 
as referring to the town clerk when the subject-matter applies 
to town elections, and to the village clerk when it applies to 
village elections, dominations for town and village offices 
shall be made and certified substantially as hereinbefore 
provided, but the certificates thereof shall be filed with the 
clerk not less than five days before the day of election. 

When nominations are made for town and village offices, in 
the manner set forth in section five of this act, the number 
3 




3i 


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Chap. 262. 


Vacancies. 


Ballots. 


Duties of 
ballot 

clerks, how 
performed. 


Names on 
ballots. 


Inspectors, 


of signatures to tlie certificate of nomination need not exceed 
fifty, dominations for town and village offices need not be 
publislied in newspapers, but tlie clerk shall cause printed 
lists to be posted as prescribed in section eleven of tins act, 
on the day before tlie election is to be field. When a person 
desires to decline a nomination fie shall fortfivdtfi notify the 
clerk in writing that fie declines such nomination. When¬ 
ever it shall be necessary to fill a vacancy the same shall be 
filled at least three days before election in the manner 
prescribed by this act. The clerk shall provide all ballots 
and cards of instruction to be used at the election, and the 
same shall be a charge u]3on the town or village in and for 
which the election is to be held, the payment of which shall 
be provided for in the same manner as the payment of other 
town or village expenses. The ballots shall be substantially 
in the form of the ballots above described, but it shall not be 
necessary to print an indorsement upon them, dames of 
candidates not certified at least three days before election 
day shall not be placed on said ballots. The number of 
ballots to be printed and distributed under this section shall 
be the same as provided for in section eighteen of this act. 
The clerk shall deliver, or cause to be delivered the ballots 
and cards of instmction, in sealed packages, to the board of 
inspectors at the oj)ening of the polls on election day, and 
shall perform such other duties devolved by this act upon 
county clerks as may be applicable to town and village 
elections. Ballot clerks shall not serve at such elections, but 
all the duties hereinbefore devolved upon ballot clerks shall, 
at town and village elections, be j)erformed by the town or 
village boards or other officers acting as inspectors of election. 
The names of candidates for town officers* shall not be 
printed on the same ballot with the names of candidates for 
village offices. The officers who are now required by law to 
act as inspectors of election at town meetings and village 
elections shall continue to act as such inspectors under the 


* So in the original. 






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35 


provisions of tliis act. The inspectors of election, or the 
officers acting as such inspectors, shall aj)point one or more 
-of their number to take charge of the ballots and deliver the 
same to qualified voters, and the person or persons thus 
appointed, or some other of the election officers, shall place 
his or their initials upon the stub above the perforated line in 
the manner ]3rescribed by section twenty-four of this act. 

§ 39. County clerks, in counties where the office is not a Compensa- 
salaried one, shall receive a reasonable compensation for their county and 

^ town clerks. 

services in carrying out the provisions of this act, to be fixed 
by the board of supervisors of the respective counties. Town 
clerks, for their services required hereby, shall be paid for 
each day actually employed the same compensation allowed 
them by law for services upon the town board, besides their 
disbursements. 

§ 40. Sunday shall be included in all computations of time Sunday, 
made under the provisions of this act. 

S 41. "Whenever any duty is devolved upon city clerks by ntitieeof 

, city clerk, 

the provisions of this act, the same shall be performed, in clerks of 
cities where there is no such office, by clerks of the common perform, 
council except, as hereinbefore otherwise provided. 

§ 42. This act shall not apply to elections for public officers Act not to 
determined otherwise than by ballot, nor to elections for certain 

'' elections. 

school officers when no other officers are to be chosen at the 
same election. 

§ 43. Section twenty-one of title three of chapter one Election 
hundred and thirty of the laws of eighteen hundred and amended, 
forty-two, entitled ‘^An act respecting elections other than 
for militia and town officers,” is hereby amended so as to read 
as follows: 

§21. At each town meeting to be held in the several inspectors, 

^ ^ 1 • 1 election of. 

towns of this state, and at each annual charter election to be 
held in the several cities of this state, which are not organized 
into towns, the electors of such city or town shall be entitled 
to vote by ballot, on the same ticket witli other town or 
charter officers, for three electors residing in each election 
district of such town or city, and the three persons in each 




36 


Electiojs Laws of 1890. 


Chap. 262. 


Appoint- 
meiit of. 


Poll clerks. 


Eepeal. 


When to 
take effect. 


district receiving the greatest number of votes shall be tlireo 
of the inspectors of election for such district at all general 
and sj)ecial elections to be held therein the ensuing year. 
The presiding officers of such town meeting or charter election 
shall, immediately after the votes of such town meeting or 
charter election shall be canvassed, ap23oint by writing, sub¬ 
scribed by a majority of such presiding officers, two additional 
inspectors of election for each election district, to be associated 
with said three inspectors so elected, and who shall thereupon 
be two of the inspectors of election of such district, Such 
inspectors shall be selected from the three persons in such 
election district who shall have the highest number of votes, 
next to the three inspectors so elected; and no ballot for 
inspectors shall be counted upon which more than three names, 
shall be contained. 

§ 44. Section three title four of chapter one hundred and 
thirty of the laws of eighteen hundred and forty-two, entitled 
‘^An act respecting elections other than for militia and town 
officers,” as amended by chapter one hundred and sixty-three 
of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, is hereby 
amended so as to read as follows: 

§ 3. The three inspectors elected, after having severally 
taken such oath, shall appoint one clerk, and the two 
inspectors appointed, after having severally taken such oath 
shall appoint another clerk, to be called clerks of the poll. 

§ 45. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the pro¬ 
visions of this act are hereby repealed. 

§ 46. This act shall take effect July first, eighteen hundred, 
and ninety. 




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37 


Chapter 94:. 

AIs ACT TO Amend Title Five of the Penal Code 

Relating to Crimes Against the Elective Franchise. 

Approved by the G-overnor April 4, 1890. Passed, three-fifths being 
present. 

The People of the State of New York^ Tepresented in 
Senate and Assembly^ do enact asfolloios: 

Section 1. Title five of the Penal Code, entitled Of 
crimes against the elective franchise,'’ is hereby amended so 
as to read as follows: 

§ 41. It shall be unlawful for any directly or 

indirectly, by himself or through any other j^erson: 

1. To pay, lend or contribute, or ofier or promise to j^ay, 
lend or contribute any money or other valuable consideration, 
to or for any voter, or to or for any other jierson, to induce 
such voter to vote or refrain from voting at any election, or to 
induce any voter to vote or refrain from voting at such elec¬ 
tion for any particular ^Derson or persons, or to induce such 
voter to come to the j^olls, or remain away from the polls at 
such election, or on account of such voter having voted or 
refrained from voting or having voted or refrained from 
voting for any particular person, or having come to the poll 
or remained away from the j^olls at such election. 

2. To give, offer or jiromise any office, jfiace or emjDloy- 
inent, or to promise to 23rocure or endeavor to j^rocure any 
office, place or emjfioyment to or for any voter, or to or for 
any other person, in order to induce such voter to vote or 
refrain from voting at any election, or to induce any voter to 
vote or refrain from voting at such election for any jiarticular 
person or persons. 

3. To make any gift, loan, j^romise, offer, procurement or 
agreement, as aforesaid, to, for or with any person in order 
to induce such iDerson to 2 )rocure or endeavor to procure tlie 


Chap. 94. 


Bribery of 
voters. 




38 


Election Laws of 1890, 

Chap. 94. gjggjjgjj ^ny person, or the vote of any voter at any 
election. 

4. To procure or engage, promise or endeavor to procure,, 
in consecpience of any such gift, loan, offer, promise, procure¬ 
ment or agreement, the election of any person or the vote of 
any voter at such election. 

5. To advance or pay or cause to be paid any money or 
other valuable thing to or for the use of any other person 
with the intent that the same, or any part thereof, shall be 
used in bribery at any election, or to knowingly pay, or cause 
to be paid, any money or other valuable thing to any person 
in discharge or repayment of any money, wholly or in i:>art, 
expended in bribery at any election. 

Acceptance S 41 a. It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or 

of bribes. 

indirectly, by himself or through any other person: 

1. To receive, agree or contract for, before or during an 
election, any money, gift, loan or other valuable considera¬ 
tion, office, place or employment for himself or any other per¬ 
son, for voting or agreeing to vote, or for coming or agreeing 
to come to the polls, or for remaining away or agreeing to 
remain away from the polls, or for refraining or agreeing to 
refrain from voting, or for voting or agreeing to vote or 
refraining or agreeing to refrain from voting for any particu¬ 
lar person or persons at any election. 

2. To receive any money or other valuable thing during or 
after an election on account of himself or any other person 
having voted or refrained from voting at such election, or on 
account of himself or any other person having voted or 
refrained from voting for any particular person at such elec¬ 
tion, or on account of himself or any other person having 
come to the |)olls or remained away from the polls at such 
election, or on account of having induced any other person 
to vote or refrain from voting or to vote or refrain from voting 
for any particular person or persons at such election. 

wagers on § shall be Unlawful for any candidate for public 

elections, office, before or during an election, to make any bet or wager 



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39 


with a voter, or take a share or interest in or in any manner 
become a party to any such bet or wager, or provide or agree 
to provide any money to be used by anotlier in making such 
bet or wager, upon any event or contingency whatever. 'Nor 
shall it be lawful for any ]3erson, directly or indirectly, to 
make a bet or wager with a voter, depending upon the result 
of any election, with the intent thereby to procure the chal¬ 
lenge of such voter, or to j)revent him from voting at such 
election. 

§ 41 c. It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or 
indirectly, by himself or any other person in his behalf, to 
make use of, or threaten to make use of, any force, violence 
or restraint, or to inflict or threaten the infliction by himself, 
or through any other person, of any injury, damage, harm or 
loss, or in any manner to practice intimidation upon or against 
any person, in order to induce or compel such person to vote 
or refrain from voting at any election, or to vote or refrain 
from voting for any particular person or persons at any 
election, or on account of such person having voted or 
refrained from voting at any election. And it shall be 
unlawful for any person by abduction, duress or any forcible 
or fraudulent device or contrivance whatever to impede, pre¬ 
vent, or otherwise interfere with, the free exercise of the 
elective franchise by any voter; or to compel, induce, or 
prevail upon any voter cither to give or refrain from giving 
his vote at any election, or to give or refrain from giving his 
vote for any particular person at any election. It shall not 
be lawful for any employer in paying his employes the salary 
or wages due them to inclose their pay in pay envelopes ” 
upon which there is written or printed any political mottoes, 
devices or arguments containing threats, express or implied, 
intended or calculated to influence the political opinions or 
actions of such employes. Nor shall it be lawful for any 
employer, within ninety days of general election to put up or 
otherwise exhibit in his factory, work-shop or other estalflish- 
ment or place where his employes maybe working, any hand¬ 
bill or placard containing any threat, notice or information 


Chap. 94. 


Intimida¬ 
tion of 
voters. 


Interfer¬ 
ence with 
exercise of 
elective 
franchise. 


Use of pay- 
envelopes to 
influence 
employes. 


Posting or 
exhibition 
of placards, 
etc. 




40 

Chap. 94. 


Section to 
apply to 
corpora¬ 
tions. 
Penalty. 


Statements 
of election 
expenses by 
candidates. 


Filing 

thereof. 


Election Laws of 1890. 

that in case any j^articular ticket or candidate shall be elected, 
work in his place or establishment will cease, in whole or in 
part, or his establishment be closed up, or the wages of his 
workmen be reduced, or other threats express or implied, 
intended or calculated to influence the political opinions or 
actions of his employes. This section shall apply to corpo¬ 
rations, as well as to individuals, and any person or corpora¬ 
tion violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor, and any corporation violating this 
section shall forfeit its charter. 

§ 41d. Every candidate who is voted for at any j^ublic 
election held within this State shall, within ten days after 
such election, flle as hereinafter j)rovided an itemized state¬ 
ment, showing in detail all the moneys contributed or exj^ended, 
by him, directly or indirectly, by himself or through any 
other person, in aid of his election. Such statement shall 
give the names of the various persons who received such 
moneys, the specific nature of each item, and the purpose for 
which it was expended or contributed. There shall be 
attached to such statement an affidavit subscribed and sworn 
to by such candidate, setting forth in substance that the state¬ 
ment thus made is in all respects true, and that the same is a 
full and detailed statement of all moneys so contributed or 
expended by him directly or indirectly, by himself or through 
any other j)erson in aid of his election. Candidates for ofli^ces 
to be filled by the electors of the entire State, or any division or 
disti ict thereof greater than a county, shall file their statements 
in the office of the Secretary of State. The candidates for town, 
village and city offices, excepting the city of J^ew York, shall 
file their statements in the office of the town, village, or city 
clerk respectively, and in cities wherein there is no city clerk, 
with the clerk of the common council wherein the election 
occurs. Candidates for all other offices, including all offices 
in the city and county of ISTew York, shall file their state¬ 
ments in the office of the clerk of the county wherein the 
election occurs. 



Electiox Laws of 1890. 


41 


§ 41e. A person offending against any provision of sections 
lorty-one and forty-one-a of this act is a competent witness 
against another person so offending, and may be compelled 
to attend and testify upon any trial, hearing, proceeding or 
investigation in the same manner as any other jierson. But Testimony 
the testimony so given shall not be used in any prosecution 
or proceeding, civil or criminal, against the person so testify¬ 
ing. A person so testifying shall not thereafter be liable to 
indictment, iirosecution or punishment for the offense with 
reference to which his testimony was given and may plead or 
prove the giving of testimony accordingly, in bar of such an 
indictment or jirosecution. 

§ 41f. Whosoever shall violate any provision of this title. Punishment 
uj^on conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment 
in a county jail for not less than three months nor more than 
one year. The offenses described in section* forty-one and 
forty-one-a of this act are hereby declared to be infamous 
crimes. When a person is convicted of any offense men¬ 
tioned in section forty-one of this act he shall in addition to 
the jinnishment above prescribed, forfeit any office to which 
he may have been elected at the election with reference to 
which such offense was committed; and when a person is Duty of 
<?onvicted of any offense mentioned in section forty-one-a SksT 
of this act he shall in addition to the j)unishment above pre¬ 
scribed be excluded from the right of suffrage for a period of 
five years after such conviction and it shall be the duty of the 
county clerk of the county in which any such conviction shall 
be had, to transmit a certified C023y of the record of convic¬ 
tion to the clerk of each county of the State, within ten days 
thereafter, which said certified copy shall be duly filed by the 
said county clerks in their resjDective offices. Any candidate penalty for 

refusal to 

for office who refuses or neglects to file a statement as pre- file etate- 
scribed in section forty-one-d of this act shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable as above j^rovided and 
shall also forfeit his office. 


* So in the original. 






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Chap. 321. 
Other 
crimes 
against 
elective 
franchise. 

Repeal. 


General 
registry 
law, when 
not appli¬ 
cable. 


Board of 
registry. 
Meetings. 


§ 41g. Other crimes against the elective franchise are: 
defined, and the punishment tliereof prescribed by special 
statutes. 

§ 2. Section forty-one of the Penal Code, as it existed prior 
to the passage of this act, is hereby repealed. 

§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately. 


Cli-apter 331. 

A'N ACT TO Peyise, Consolidate and Amend the Laws 

Pelating to the Pegistry of Voters except in the 

Cities of New York and Brooklyn. 

Approved by the Governor, May 13, 1890. Passed, three-fifths being 
present. 

The Peojple of the State of New York, represented in 
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : 

Section 1. This act shall be known as the general registry 
law, but shall not apply to the cities of New York and 
Brooklyn, nor to any village election or town meeting, nor to 
school elections in cities when held at different times or by 
different election districts from other elections of city officers, 
nor to any vote cast or offered to be cast under or by virtue: 
of any law enabling a qualified elector to vote while absent 
from the State in the military or naval service of the United 
States. 

§2. The inspectors of election of each election district 
shall constitute the board of registry thereof. In cities, 
each board shall hold four meetings before each general elec¬ 
tion, and before each city election for city officers, on the 
fifth, fourth, third and second Saturdays before the election, 
to be known respectively as the first, second, third and fourth 
meetings of the board for such election, and two meetings 
before each special election in any city on the second Satur¬ 
day and last Friday before such election, to be known 
respectively as the first and second meetings of the board for 






Election Laws of 1890. 


4^ 


the special election. Elsewhere than in cities, each hoard 
shall hold three meetings before each general election, on the 
third and second Saturdays and last Friday before the elec¬ 
tion, to be known respectively as the first, second and third 
meetings of the board for the general election. Each meeting 
shall begin at nine o’clock in the forenoon and continue until 
nine o’clock in the evening, with not more than two inter¬ 
missions of one hour each. Immediately upon their organiza- 
assembling for the first meeting for any election, the board 
shall elect one of their number to be its chairman, who shall 
immediately administer to tlie other members of the board 
the constitutional oath of ofiice, one of wliom shall thereupon 
administer the like oath to the chairman. If a member fails Appoint- 
to appear at any meeting of the board the otlier members of 
the board shall immediately appoint a qualified elector of the Members 
district of the same political party as the absent member, who 
U]3on taking the constitutional oath of ofiice, shall act in the 
place of the absent member until he shall appear. If two 
members fail to appear at any meeting of the board, the 
member appearing may appoint two qualified electors of the 
district who shall respectively belong to the same political 
parties as the absent members, who, upon taking the con¬ 
stitutional oath of ofiice, shall act in the places of such absent 
members resj^ectively until they may respectively appear. 

If no members of the board shall appear at any meeting 
within one hour after the same should have been opened, the 
qualified electors of the district present, not less than ten 
may designate a qualified elector of the district to act in the 
place of each absent member, who shall be of the same 
political party as such absent member, and shall act in his 
place until he appears; and the persons so designated shall 
organize as a board, and take an oath of olfice in like manner 
as herein required of the members of the board. 

§ 3. All meetings of the board of registry in each election Meetings,^ 
district shall be held at the place designated for holding the 
poll of the next ensuing election for which the meeting is 
held, but no building or part of a building shall be so 




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Election Laws of 1890. 


Chap. 321 . 
Polling 
places not tc 
oe where 
linuors are 
sold, etc. 


List of 
woters. 


Placing of 
names 
thereon,in 
•cities. 


Placing of 
names 
thereon 
•elsewhere. 


designated in any city if within sixty days before such 
designation intoxicating liquors, ale or beer shall have been 
sold in any part of such building; and no room shall be so 
designated in any election district, elsewhere, if within sixty 
days before such designation intoxicating liquor, ale or beer 
shall have been sold in such room or in a room adjoining tliereto 
Avith a door or other passageway between the two rooms ; and 
no intoxicating liquor, ale or beer shall be sold in such build¬ 
ing, in a city, or in such room or adjoining room elsewhere 
after such designation and before such election. 

§ 4. The board of registry of each election district at its 
several meetings for each election shall prepare a list of 
persons qualified to vote in such district at such election, 
wliich, Avhen finally comjjleted, shall be known as the register 
of Alters of the district for such election. In cities the 
names of such persons only as personally appear before the 
board and are so qualified shall be j^laced on such list at a 
meeting of the board for a general election or for a city 
election of city officers. At the first meeting of the board in 
a city for a special election the board shall place upon such 
list all the names AAdiich appear upon the register of voters 
for the last preceding general election in tlie election district 
in Avhich the board shall meet, except of such persons as shall 
have died or ceased to reside in such election district, or 
otherAAuse become disqualified to vote therein, since such 
general election and shall at such meeting and also at its 
second meeting for such special election, place uj^on such list 
the names of all persons so qualified, and who shall personally 
appear before the board at one of such meetings, but no neAV 
names Avhich were not on such register shall be placed on 
such list, except of persons avIio so personally appear. Else- 
Avhere, the board shall at its first meeting for any election, 
place upon such list the name^ of all persons qualified to vote 
in such district at such election, Avhich appear upon the poll- 
list of the next preceding general election held in the dis¬ 
trict, and shall also at such meeting and at its second meeting 
place upon such list the names of all otlier persons knoAAm or 




Election Laws of 1890. 


45 


proven to tlie satisfaction of tlie board to be so cpialified, and 
shall at every meeting of the board place upon such list the 
name of every person so qualified who personally appears 
before the board and requests to have his name placed 
thereon, but at the third meeting of the board the names of 
such persons only as personally appear before the board and 
are so qualified shall be placed on such list. 

§ 5. The list so made in each election district shall be 
arranged alphabetically by the first letter of the surname of 
each person, which shall be placed in the first column, with 
his Christian name in the second column, and his age 
as near as it can be ascertained in the third column, 
his residence by street and number, if it have a street 
and number, in the fourth column, and if such residence be 
in a city or incorporated village and have no street number, 
then in such fourth column shall be placed a brief designation 
of the locality of his residence. The list shall be so arranged 
at the first meeting that there shall be sufficient space after 
each letter for all persons whose names may be added at 
subsequent meetings, whose surnames shall begin with the 
same letter, but before adding any names after the first 
meeting, there shall be inserted in the list at the end of the 
names set forth under each letter, at the next previous meet¬ 
ing, the following: Added at second meeting,” or “ added 
at third meeting,” or added at fourth meeting,” as the case 
may be 

§ 6. At the close of each meeting of the board in each 
election district the board shall add to the list of voters as it 
is at the close of the meeting, a certificate, which, for general 
elections in cities and for a city election of city officers, shall 
be to the effect that such list as it then is, is a true and correct 
list of all persons qualified to vote at such election in such 
district, who have personally appeared before the board and 
have requested to have their names placed thereon; and 
elsewhere and for special elections in cities, it shall be to the 
effect that it is a true and correct list of all persons qualified 
to vote at the next election in such district whose names the 


Chap. 321 . 


Form of 
list. 


Arrange¬ 
ment tor 
additional! 
names. 


List, how- 
certified. 




46 


Chap. 321. 
"Custody 
thereof. 

Copies to be 
posted and 
retained. 


Poll-lists of 
preceding 
election, de¬ 
livery of, 
to board. 


•Copies, in 
•case of 
formation 
of new 
•district. 


■Compensa¬ 
tion there¬ 
for. 


Duty of 
board of 
new dis¬ 
trict. 


•Challenge 
of appli¬ 
cant. 


Election Laws of 1890. 

board is required bj law to place thereon. Such list, so 
certified, shall remain in the custody of the chairman of the 
board until the close of the j^olls on election day. At each 
meeting of the board, or during the next following secular 
day, the board shall make three certified copies of such list 
and certificate, one of which shall forthwith be conspicuously 
posted in the place where such meeting shall have been held, 
and one shall be retained by each of the other two members 
of the board, until the close of the polls of such next election. 

§ 7. Each clerk with whom the j)oll-list of the last ^^re- 
ceding general election in any election district outside of a 
city, shall have been filed in j)ursuance of law, shall cause 
one of such poll-lists to be delivered to the board of registry 
of each district outside of a city at the opening of its first 
meeting for any election, and any such clerk within any city 
shall cause the register of voters on file in his office to be 
delivered to the board of registry of each election district in 
such city at the opening of its first meeting for a special 
election. If a new election district shall have been formed 
since the last preceding general election, such clerk shall, 
before such first meeting, make a certified copy of such a 
poll-list of each district out of which such new district shall 
have been formed, and shall cause such certified copies to be 
delivered to the board of registry of such new election dis¬ 
trict at the opening of its first meeting. The just and 
reasonable value of the services of such clerk in making 
such certified copies shall be a charge upon the town or 
municipahty of which he is the clerk. Each board of 
registry of such new election district outside of a city, at its 
first meeting, or, in a city, at its first meeting for a special 
election, shall place upon the list of voters all persons whose 
names are upon such copies who are qualified to vote in such 
election district at the next ensuing election for which such 
meeting is held. 

§ 8. Any person who appears ]3ersonally at any meeting 
of a board of registry for any election and applies to have 
his name placed on the list of voters, may be challenged by 




Election Laws of 1890. 


47 


any qualified elector of such district. If such applicant be 
so challenged, or if any member of the board shall have isteJed't?*'' 
reason to suspect that such applicant is not then, or will not 
at the time of the election for which such meeting is held, be 
qualified to vote at such election in such district, the board 
shall, and in all cases, may administer to such applicant the 
oath wdiich is required by law to be administered to a 
challenged person offering to vote at a general election, and 
may thereupon examine him as to his qualifications as an 
elector. Such a])plicant may also be required by the board statement 
to state, under oath, his age, his residence by street and appucant?^ 
number, if it have a street number, and otherwise to describe 
the locality thereof, and if he is not a householder, to state 
the name of the householder with whom he resides, and in 
like manner to describe the residence of such householder. 

If the applicant shall make such statement and shall make 
oath or affirmation to the circumstances which qualify him to 
vote at such election in such district, his name shall be added 
to such list of voters. The board shall at any such meeting Erasure of 
erase from such list of voters the name of any person thereon 
who is proven to the satisfaction of the board to be not quali¬ 
fied to vote in such district at such election, or who cannot 
be so qualified at the time of such election. If the board Correction 

. ^ ^ of list, how 

shall, at any meeting, upon sufficient evidence being pre- compelled, 
sented to it refuse to strike from such list of voters the name 
of any person not so qualified to vote or shall refuse or 
neglect to j^lace upon such list the name of any person wdio 
is entitled to have his name placed thereon, application may 
be made to any justice of the supreme court of the judicial 
district in which such election district is, or to any justice of 
the supreme court residing in a county adjoining such judicial 
district, or to the county judge of the county, or to any judge 
of a court of record of a city in which such election district 
is, and such justice or judge may, uj)on sufficient evidence, and 
upon such notice to the members of the board of registry 
and such other persons interested of such application as the 
justice or judge may require, order such name to be stricken 



48 


Election Laws of 1890. 


Chap s! 1. jjgj ^j. register of voters, as the 

case may be, and such list or register shall be corrected 
accordingly. 

word8i‘‘to g 9_ If at any such meeting of a board of registry any 
piafidop- elector of the district sliall upon oath declare that he has 
poBitename. believe that any person on such list of voters is not 

so qualified to vote, the board of registry shall place the 
words to be challenged ” opposite the name of such person, 
and when such person shall offer his vote at such election^ 
Oath to be the general oath as to qualifications shall be administered to 
him, and if he shall refuse to take such oath he shall not be 
permitted to vote. 

Register at g IQ. At the Opening of the polls of every election in each 
election district, the board of inspectors of election thereof 
shall then and tliere have the original register of voters of 
such district for such election, and the two certified copies 
thereof retained by the members of the board of registry, 
Unregister- and no persoii shall vote at such election in such district, 

ed persons ^ ^ 

not to vote, uiiless liis name is on such register. The inspector shall 
Checking clieck uDon the register the name of each person whose vote 

of name. -l o j 

Right of is cast, and before another vote shall be taken. The ri^lit 

challenge. ® 

of any person to vote whose name is on such register shall 
be subject to challenge as though this act had not been 
passed. 

poi{-ifsts“by § clerks of elections in cities shall enter iq^on the 

clerks. poll-lists of each election, opposite the name of each person, 
his age as near as it can be ascertained, his residence by street 
and number, if it have a street number, and otherwise a brief 
description of the locality thereof. Any person offering to 
required. ^iiy electioii ill a city shall, if required by an inspector 

of election, before his vote shall be received, truly state his 
age and his residence accordingly, and if he shall refuse so to 
do he shall not De allowed to vote, and any person willfully 
making a* false statement in relation to his age or residence, 
upon such requirement, shall be guilty of a felony. 

§ 12. After the canvass of the votes each register so 
checked and such certified copies shall be filed in the office in 


Piling of 
registers. 




Election Laws of 1890, 


49 


which the poll-lists of such election in such district are 
required by law to be filed. 

§ 13. All meetings of the board of registry shall be public. 
The lists and the register of voters and the certified copies 
thereof shall at all reasonable hours be accessible to the 
public for examination or for making copies thereof. 

§ 14. Each board of registry shall have and exercise the 
same powers in preserving order at their meetings as are 
given to inspectors of election for preserving order on elec¬ 
tion days. 

§ 15. Every person dwelling in any building in a city shall 
truly answer all questions asked by any elector of the city 
intermediate the first meeting of the board of registry therein 
for any election and the close of such election, relating to the 
residence and qualifications as a voter of all persons dwelling 
in such building, and of all persons who appear upon the list 
or register of voters made by such board as residing at such 
building, and any person who shall willfully violate any pro¬ 
vision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 

§ 16. Any qualified elector in a city or town may challenge 
and contest the right of any person to vote at any election in 
any election district in such city or town, or to have his name 
placed by the board of registry upon a list or register of 
voters at any election district in such city or town. 

§ 17. Any board of registry may appoint one clerk to assist 
in the performance of the clerical duties of the said board for 
not more than four days in cities and not more than three 
days elsewhere. Such clerk shall take the constitutional 
oath of office before he enters upon the performance of his 
duties. 

§ 18. The members and clerk of each board of registry 
shall be entitled to the same per diem compensation as 
inspectors and clerks of election respectively for each day 
they are actually and necessarily employed in the perform¬ 
ance of their duties, to be paid at the same time and in like 
manner. The reasonable and necessary expenses of each 
board of registry for stationery, blanks, instructions, and other 
4 


Meetings, 

public. 

Eegisters 

accessible. 


Preserva¬ 
tion of 
order. 


Information 
to be given. 


Violation of 
section. 


Elector may 
challenge, 
contest 
right to 
vote, etc. 


Board may 

appoint 

clerk. 


Compensa¬ 
tion of 
members 
and clerks. 


Expenses 
for blanks, 
etc. 




50 


Chap. 321. 


Administer¬ 
ing oaths 
and certify¬ 
ing 

affidavits. 


Affirma¬ 

tions. 


Penalties 
for violation 
of act, etc. 


Election Laws of 1890. 

incidental expenses shall be paid in the same manner as like 
incidental expenses of elections. 

§ 19. Any member of a board of registry or of inspectors 
of election may administer any oath and certify any affidavit 
to be sworn before him which may be taken before or pre¬ 
sented to either of such boards, and no member of either of 
such boards or any other officer shall charge or receive any 
fee or reward for administering any such oath or certifying 
any such affidavit. 

§ 20. An affirmation shall be equivalent to an oath for all 
purposes of this act. A person is a qualified voter in any 
election district for the purposes of having his name placed 
on the list or register of voters by the board of registry 
thereof, if he is at the time qualified to vote at the election 
for which such register is made, or may become so qualified 
on or before the day upon which such election is to be 
held. 

§ 21. Any person who shall cause his name to be placed 
upon any list or register of voters in more than one election 
district for the same election, or shall cause his name to be 
placed upon such list or register of voters in such district 
knowing that he cannot be a qualified voter therein at the 
election for which such list or register is made, or who shall 
falsely personate any registered voter, and any such j)crson 
causing any such act or aiding or abetting any person in any 
manner in either of such acts, shall be guilty of a felony, 
and punishable by imprisonment in a state prison for not 
more than five years. Any person who shall willfully lose, 
destroy or mutilate the list or register of voters in any election 
district, or any certified copy thereof after the making of the 
same and before the conclusion of the election for which the 
same are made, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. If any 
member or clerk of a board of registry shall willfully violate 
any of the provisions of this act, or be guilty of any fraud in 
the execution of his office, he shall be guilty of a felony, and 
be punishable by imprisonment in a state prison for not less 
than two nor more than ten years. 




Election La ws of 1890. 


51 


§ 22. The secretary of state shall cause to be prepared a p^eparauon 
sufficient number of suitable books for lists and registers of b“uon o?' 
voters, with blank certificates and brief instructions to boards by 
of registry therein, for use by such boards in preparing lists 
and registers of voters in pursuance of this act, and shall 
furnish to the county clerk of each county at least sixty days 
before each election to which this act is applicable a sufficient 
number of copies of this act to furnish one to each inspector 
of election in such county, and a sufficient number of such 
blank-books to furnish five to each board of registry in such 
county, and each county clerk shall cause the same to be Duty of 

. . county 

distributed accordingly within ten days after the receipt clerk, 
thereof. 

§ 23. 1^0 Saturday shall be deemed a holiday, nor shall any Saturday 
Saturday afternoon be deemed a half holiday so as to affect not to affect, 
any meeting or proceeding of a board of registry. 

§ 24. The following laws are hereby re])ealed to wit: Laws 
Chapter three hundred and eighty of the laws of eighteen 
hundred and fifty-nine; chapter five hundred and seventy of 
the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-two ; chapter eight 
hundred and twenty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred 
and seventy-three ; chapters one hundred and forty-two, four 
hundred and sixty-five, five hundred and eight and five hun¬ 
dred and seventy-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and 
eighty ; chapter eighteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and 
eighty-one; chapter thirteen of the laws of eighteen hundred 
and eighty-two ; chapter five hundred and eight of the laws 
of eighteen hundred and eighty-three; chapter one hundred 
and sixty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-four; 
chapter six hundred and forty-nine of the laws of eighteen 
hundred and eighty-six; but such repeal shall not affect or Acts, etc., 
impair any act done, or right accruing, accrued or acquired, 
or liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred prior 
to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety, under or by 
virtue of any law so repealed, but the same may be asserted, 
enforced, prosecuted or inflicted as fully and to the same 
extent as if such law had not been repealed ; the repeal of 




52 


Election Laws of 1890. 


Chap. 355. siicli law whicli repeals a j)rior law, shall not restore such. 

Prosecution pi’ior law j and all actions or proceedings, civil or criminal,. 

act?ou8, etc. commenced under or by virtue of the laws so repealed and. 

pending on June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, may 
be prosecuted and defended to final effect, in the same man¬ 
ner and with the like effect as they might under the laws 
then existing. 

When to ^ § 25. Tliis act shall take effect July first, eighteen hundred 

and ninety. 


Chiapter 355. 

AK ACT TO Amend Sections Seven, I^ine and Eleven of 
Title Twenty of Chapter Five Hundred and Eighty- 
three OF THE Laws of Eighteen Hundred and Eighty- 
eight, Entitled An Act to He vise and Combine in a 
Single Act all Existing Special and Local Laws- 
Affecting Public Interests in the City of Brooklyn,’^ 

WITH HeFERENCE to ELECTIONS. 

Approyed by the Governor May 17, 1890. Passed, three-fifths being’ 
present. 

The People of the State of New PorJc, represented in 
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : 

Elections. SECTION 1. Section seven of title twenty of chapter five 
hundred and eighty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred 
and eighty-eight is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 
Rjigrars | 7. The Said registrars of electors shall make the registry 
d^es of, hereinafter provided for, in the city of Brooklyn, and the 
said registrars and inspectors shall hold the elections herein¬ 
after mentioned and preside at the same, and have and 
possess all the powers, and be subject to all the duties and 
liabilities of inspectors of election. The registrars of each 
meeting of. ^^sction district shall meet at the place designated for hold¬ 
ing the poll therein at the next general election, on Tuesday 
four weeks, Wednesday of the third week, and Friday and 
Saturday of the second week preceding the day of the 






Election Laws of 1890 . 


53 


^November election of each year, for the purpose of register¬ 
ing the names of the legal voters of such election district, 
and for this purpose they shall organize themselves as a 
board of registry in each election district, and appoint, or in 
■case tliey cannot agree, select by lot, one of their number 
as chairman of the board. The said board shall be and 
remain in attendance on each of the days above named, at 
said designated place, from seven to ten o’clock in the fore¬ 
noon, and from three to ten o’clock in the afternoon, for the 
purpose of making a list of all persons who are, or will 
be on the day of the next election, qualified and entitled to 
vote at such election in said election district, under and in 
accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and laws 
of this State, and who have personally appeared and asked 
to be registered. The name of no person shall, at any time, 
be entered upon said registry unless the elector shall per¬ 
sonally appear before said registrars. Such list, when com¬ 
pleted, shall constitute and be known as the registry of 
electors of said district. Each member of said board shall 
make a list of qualified voters in the district, and enter 
therein, under the heading of the street or avenue in which 
each voter resides, his name, age, residence, and the duration 
of his residence in the State, in the county, and in the elec¬ 
tion district; and no person shall be registered unless he be 
at the time or will be on the day of the next election a resi¬ 
dent and qualified voter within the election district; and it 
shall be the duty of the registrars receiving his name, if such 
person be challenged, or in case such registrars shall have 
cause to suspect such j^erson is not a resident of such district, 
■or is from any cause disqualified from voting therein, to 
administer to him the same oath which the law prescribes 
shall be administered to a challenged person attempting to 
vote at a regular election, and such registrars shall make a 
memorandum on the registry opposite the name of every 
person who has been thus sworn. The fact that such person 
has been thus sworn shall not prevent his being sworn .again 
if challenged for any cause, when he attempts to vote at the 


Chap. 355. 


Organiza¬ 

tion. 


Hours for 
registration. 


List of 
voters. 


Personal 

appearance 

necessary. 

Registry of 
electors. 


Oath, when 
to be ad¬ 
ministered 
to applicant, 
etc. 



54 


Election La of 1890. 


Chap. 355. 
Production 
of natural¬ 
ization 
papers, etc. 


Mistakes ol 
legal voters 
in register¬ 
ing, correc¬ 
tion of. 


Certificate 
to voter. 


Entry of 
name in 
register of 
another 
district. 


Registry 
lists, copies 
to be made. 


Entries 

therein. 


next election. It shall be tlie duty of every naturalized 
citizen, before being registered, to produce to the registrars, 
if any registrar shall require, liis naturalization papers for 
their inspection, and to make oath before them that he is the 
person purporting to have been naturalized by the j)apers so 
produced, unless such citizen was naturalized previous to 
eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and any person know¬ 
ingly taking a false oath before such registrars shall be jjun- 
ished as for willful and corrui^t perjury. If at any time, on 
or prior to the Thursday preceding the day of election, the 
board of registrars in any election district shall be satisfied 
that any person otherwise eligible as a voter in the said city 
has by mistake been registered in the election district in 
which said board shall have been and shall be serving, and 
shall be entitled to be registered in another district in the 
same ward, they shall strike his name from their said registry, 
and thereupon give to such voter a certificate signed by said 
board that his name has been stricken from their said registry 
on account of such removal, and shall strike his name off 
from the registry on whicli it has been entered; and on 
presentation of such certificate to tlie registrars of the district 
to which he shall have so removed, at their final meeting on 
the Thursday preceding the day of election, his name shall 
be entered on the registry in such district, with a mem¬ 
orandum of such removal. 

§ 2. Section nine of title twenty of chapter five hundred 
and eighty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty- 
eight is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 

§ 9. On the Monday next after the last of the four days, 
hereinbefore provided for the registration of voters, the said 
registrars of each election district shall make and com¬ 
plete four additional lists of said registry, and enter therein 
the names of the persons registered, under the heading of 
the streets or avenues in which they reside, their age, place 
residence, in numerical order, length of time of residence 
in the State, in the county and in the election district, and 
m a column headed “remarks ” if to be challenged, as follows: 



Election Laws of 1890. 


Chap. 355. 


Name of Street or Avenue. 


Residence 
number or 
other designa¬ 
tion. 

Name of 
voter. 

Age 

Length of 
residence in 
the state. 

Length of 
residence in 
the county. 

Length of 
residence in 
the district. 

Remarks 
(to be chal¬ 
lenged). 









Form of 
lists. 


The said lists when so completed shall he signed and certified 
by each registrar. Two of the said lists shall be carefully 
preserved by the board of registrars for nse on the day of 
election, aud the other two lists shall be delivered on the 
following day, to the board of elections, and it shall be the 
duty of the said board of elections to print and distribute for 
each ward respectively fifty times as many copies of said list, 
as there are districts in the ward, in pamphlet form, so that 
each ward pamphlet shall contain the lists of the several elec¬ 
tion districts in each ward. It shall also be the duty of the 
said board of elections to select and hire all polling places and 
place them in proper order and condition ; to furnish to the 
various election officers provided for in this title, such regis¬ 
tries, maps, books, blanks, instructions and stationery as may 
be necessary for the proper discharge of their duties. 

§ 3. Section eleven of title twenty of chapter five hundred 
and eighty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty- 
eight, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 

§ 11. It shall be the duty of the said registrars and said 
inspectors to act as inspectors of elections in the districts 
wherein they are appointed at the next general election after 
such appointment. They shall together form a board of 
inspectors of election by appointing, or in case they cannot 
agree, selecting by lot one of their members to be chairman, 
and shall also designate two of their number at the opening of 
the polls who shall check the name of every voter voting in 
such district whose name is on the registry, and no vote shall 


Certifica¬ 

tion. 

CuBtody of 
lists. 


Printing 
and distri¬ 
bution. 


Polling 
places and 
supplies for. 


Inspectors 
of election. 


Board, how 
formed. 


Checking of 
names on 
lists. 
















I 


56 


Chap. 355. 


Right of 
challenge. 


Unregis¬ 
tered per¬ 
sons not to 
vote. 


Powers and 
duties. 


Hourly 
entry, etc., 
upon poll- 
lists. 


Compensa¬ 
tion of 
election 
officers. 


Power to 
preserve 
order. 


Election La of 1890. 

be received at any general election unless the name of the 
person offering to vote be on the said registry; and any 
person whose name is on the registry may be challenged, and 
the same oaths shall be put as are now prescribed by law, and 
no person shall be permitted to vote at any election in the 
city of Brooklyn unless his name shall have been duly 
registered in accordance with the provisions of this title. It 
shall be their duty to be in constant attendance during the 
hours allotted for the discharge of their duties. They shall 
perform all the duties and possess all the powers of inspectors 
of election in the several towns of this State, as now provided 
by law. The inspectors shall cause the lapse of every hour 
to be entered upon the margin of the poll lists, beginning at the 
opening of the polls and continuing from hour to hour, by 
noting the hour opposite to the name of the respective voter, 
and causing their chairman to sign his name under each 
entry, and shall also enter the time of the closing of the 
polls opposite to the name of the last voter. The compensa¬ 
tion of the registrars, as registrars, shall be four dollars each 
per day, for six days only, and the compensation of each 
inspector shall be five dollars, and that of the poll clerks 
shall be five dollars for the election and five dollars for the 
canvass, and each canvasser shall receive five dollars for the 
canvass, and shall be exempt from jury duty for one year 
thereafter. The registrars and the inspectors of elections 
and canvassers in each election district, while discharging any 
of the duties imposed upon them by this title, shall have full 
power and authority, and they are hereby required to pre¬ 
serve order and enforce obedience to their lawTul commands 
at and around the place of registration or election during 
the day of any registration, revision of registration, election 
or canvass, estimate or return of votes, to keep the access to 
such place open and unobstructed, to prevent and suppress 
riots, tumult, violence, disorder and all improper practices 
tending to the intimidation or obstruction of voters, the dis¬ 
turbance or interruption of the work of registration, revision 
of registration, or voting or the canvass, estimate or return 




Election Laws of 1890. 5 -^ 

of votes, and to protect the voters, challengers, and persons 
designated to watch the canvass of any ballots from intimida¬ 
tion or violence, and the registries, poll-books, boxes and 
ballots from violence and fraud, and to appoint or deputize, 
if necessary, one or more electors to communicate their 
orders and directions and to assist in the enforcement thereof. 

§ 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are Repeal, 
hereby repealed. 

§ 5. This act shall take effect immediately. 


Clnapter 330. 

A'N ACT TO Provide for the Expense of Condtjctino 
Public Elections. 

Approved by the Governor May 14, 1890. Passed, three-fifths being 
present. 

The People of the State of JTew York, represented in 
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : 

Section 1 . The appropriate boards or other public bodies Additional 
Dr officers authorized by law to make appropriations or to ^nsmaybe 
provide for the expenses of public elections, are hereby 
authorized and empowered to make such additional appro¬ 
priations or provisions during the year eighteen hundred and 
ninety as may be found to be necessary to meet such expenses 
of elections as are made by law a charge upon their respective 
counties, cities, towns or villages. 

S 2. Such appropriations may either be included in the Moneys 

-.11 • 1 T 1 therefor, 

amount to be raised by taxation upon the property real and tow raised, 
personal within the county, town, city or village, upon which 
such election expenses are made a charge by law, or certifi 
cates of indebtedness or revenue bonds may be issued or sold 
at not less than their par value in order to provide the funds 
necessary to meet such expenses, and the sums requisite to 
redeem and pay the same shall be included in the tax levy of 
the ensuing year. 

§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately. 










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Forms and Instructions 


{^For filing this Certificate, see section 8, chapter 263, Laws 1890.] 

Party Conventiori Certificate of Nomination for a State, Cong-ressional, 
Senatorial or Judicial Office, in a Division or District greater than a 
County, 

To the Secretary of State, Albany, N. Y. : 

We certify that at a conveution of delegates representing the. 

party, held., 189.., a party which, at the last preceding election, 

polled at least one per cent of the entire vote cast in the. 

(State, division or district.) 

for which the nomination is made, the following-named persons were placed in 
nomination for offices to be filled at the next ensuing general election : 


Office to be filled. 

Name of the candidate. 

Party or political 
principle represented. 

Place of residence of 
candidate.* 


















(Signed.) 


Pi'esiding Officer of Convention. 


(Residence, city or town, street and number, if any.) 


Attest: 


Secretary of Convention. 
(Residence, city or towm, street and number, if any. 


STATE OF NEW YORK, ] . 

County of. ) 

A B and C D, being severally sworn, each for himself, says that the said A B 
was the presiding officer of the convention of delegates mentioned and described 
in the foregoing certificate, and that the said C D was the secretary of such con¬ 
vention, and that said certificate and the statements therein contained are true, to 
the best of his knowledge and belief. A B. 

C D. 

Severally subscribed and sworn to before } 

me, this.day of.. 189., ^ 

E F., 

{Notary Public or Justice of the Peace.) 


* If in a city, the street and number of his residence and place of business. 

































(iO 


Forms and Instructions. 


\_ForJiling this Certijicate, see section 8, chaiiter 2G2, Laws 1890.] 

Party Committee Certificate of Nomination for a State, Congressional, 
Senatorial or Judicial Office, in a Division or District greater than a 
County. 

To the Secretary of State, Albany, F. Y. : 

AVe certify that at a meeting of the (,...) Committee representing the. 

part}-, held., 189.., a party which, at the last preceding election, 

polled at least one per cent of the entire vote cast in the State, said committee, 

acting under'authority of the following resolution, passed., 189.., 

at a convention of delegates: 

(Here insert resolution passed by convention.) 

placed in nomination for the offices to be tilled at the next ensuing election the 
following named persons : 


Office to be filled. 

Name of the candidate. 

Party or political 
principles represented. 

Place of residence.* 


















(Signed.). 

Chairman of . State Committee. 

(Eesidence, city or town, street and number, if any.) 

Attest: . 

Secretary of . State Committee. 

(Residence, city or town, street and number, if any.) 

•STATE OF NEW YORK, ) 

’ - ss.: 

County of. ) 

A B and C D, being severally sworn, each for himself, says the said A B is the 
chairman of the State Committee of the...party mentioned, and pre¬ 

sided at the meeting described in the foregoing certificate, and that the said C D 

is the secretary of the State Committee of the.party mentioned, and 

acted as secretary at the meeting described in said certificate, and that said cer¬ 
tificate and the statements therein contained are true, to the best of his knowledge 
and belief. ^ 

C D 

Severally subscribed and sworn to before ) 

me, this.day of.189. ^ 

E F, 

{Notary Public or Justice of the Peace.) 

Note. — The above form of certificate can be used in committee nominations in divisions less 
than a State. 


* If in a city, the street and number of his residence and place of business. 



































Forms and Instructions. 


61 


{For fiUng this Certificate, see section 8, chapter 262, Lcim 1890.] 

Nomination Certificate for any Office, when made Otherwise than by a 
Convention, Committee or Primary Meeting, Pursuant to Section 5. 

To the Secretary of State, Albany, N. ; 

AYe, the undersigned, duly qualified voters of the State of New Y'ork, at a. 

meeting held., 189, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 262 

of the Laws of 1890, hereby make the following nomination for offices to be tilled 

at the next ensuing election in the. 

(State district or election division) 


Office to be filled. 

Name of the candidate. 

Political name which 
signers select.* 

Place of residence 

Of the man nominated, t 


















And we do designate and appoint 


(Name, residence and place of business.) 

to represent the signers of this certificate for the purposes set forth in section IT 
of chapter 262 of the Laws of 1890. 


(Name.). 

(Residence.).... 

(Give city or town, street and number, if any.) 


Signatures. ^ 

Residences, town or city, street and street 
number, if any. 

1 

1 

i 

1 

> 

i 

1 





* Not more than five words to be used. 

t If in a city, also the street and number of residence and place of business. 

X As to the number of names to be signed to this certificate, see section 5, chapter 262, Laws 1890.. 








































Forms ard Instructions. 


62 

Acknowledgment and.Affidavit of each Signer to be Annexed to the 

Certificate signed by him. 

STATE OF NEW YORK, (. 

County of. ^ 

On this.day of.189.before me, personally appeared 

A B, to me known to be one of the persons described in and who signed the fore¬ 
going certificate and acknowledged that he signed the same, and the said A B, 

being by me duly sworn, deposes and says that he is a voter in the. 

of.in said county, and that he has truly stated his residence in his 

statement of his place of residence added to his said signature. ^ ^ 

Acknowledged, subscribed and sworn to ) 
before me, this... .day of...., 189.. 1 

E F, 

{Notary Public, or Justice of the Peace.) 

Note. — It is not necessary that each signer should acknowledge separately. All or any number 
may be included in one acknowledgment and affidavit. 


\For filing this Certificate, see section 8, cliafpter 262, Laws 1890.] 

Convention Certificate of Nomination for a Candidate Voted for by the 
Voters of only one County or a Portion of a County. 

To the County Clerk of . County, State of New York: 

We certify that at a convention of delegates representing the. 

party, held., 189.., a party which, at the last preceding election, polled 

at least one per cent of the entire vote cast in. 

(Name county or election division.) 

for which the nomination is made, the following named persons w^ere placed in 
nomination for offices to be filled at the next ensuing election : 


Office to be filled. 

Name of the candidate. 

Party or political 
principle represented. 

Place of residence of 
candidate.* 


















(Name.).. 

Presiding Officer of Convention. 

(Residence, city or town, street and number, if any.) 

Attest ; . 

Secretary of Convention. 
(Residence, city or town, street and number, if any.) 


* If in a city, the street and number of bis residence and place of business. 






























Forms and Instructions. 


63 


STATE OF NEW YORK, ) 

’ [• ss. : 

County of. J 

A B and C D, being severally sworn, each for himself, says that the said A B 
was the presiding officer of the convention of delegates mentioned and described 
in tlie foregoing certificate, and that the said C D w'as the secretary of such conven¬ 
tion, and that said certificate and the statements therein contained are true, to the 
best of his knowledge and belief. 

A B. 

Severally subscribed and sworn to before } C D. 

me this.day of.,189.. i 

E F, 

{Notary Public or Justice of the Peace.) 


\^For filing this Certificate, see section 38, chapter 262, Laws 1890.] 
Certificate of Nomination for a Ward, Town or Village Office. 

To the {Town or City) Clerk of . 

We certify that at a primary meeting of the voters of the.party, 

held., 189.., a party which, at the last preceding election, polled 

at least one per cent of the entire vote cast in. 

(Name of ward, town or village.) 

the following named persons were placed in nomination for the offices to be filled 
at the next ensuing election in the. 

(Village, ward or town.) 


Office to be filled. 

Name of the candidate. 

Party or political 
principle represented. 

Place of residence 
of candidate.* 


















(Name). 


Presiding Officer. 

(Residence and address.) 


Attest: 


(Residence and address.) 


Secretary. 


*If in a city, the street and number of his residence and place of business. 



























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Forms and Instructions, 


STATE OF NEW YORK, K^ , 

County op. ' 

A B and C D, being severally sworn, each for himself, says that the said A B 
was the presiding officer of the primary meeting mentioned and described in the 
foregoing certificate, and that the said C D was the secretary of said primary 
meeting, and that said certificate and the statements therein contained are tine, to 
the best of his knowledge and belief. 

A B. 

Severally subscribed and sworn to before 1 CD. 

me, this.day of.. 189.. 1 

E F, 

{Notary Pablic or Justice of tJie Peace.) 


Form of Printed Poster or List to be sent by County Clerk to each. 
Town Clerk or Alderman in County or City. 

[Same to be posted by Town Clerk or Alderman in election districts. Posting of same not 
required in any city w'bere publication of same has been made in two or more daily papers.] 

To the {Town Clerk or Alderman) of {Town of. . or . Ward of. .) .* 

Please take notice that the following named persons have been nominated as 
candidates for office, to be voted for at the next ensuing election to be held in your 
(town or ward) on., 189.., as follotvs; 


\ 

Name of the candidate. 

Place of residence.* 

Office to be filled. 

Party or political 
principles representing. 


















(Signed) 


C lerk of . County. 


* If in a city, the street number of residence and place of business. 




























Forms and Instructions. 


65 


List of Nominations to be Published by County Clerk. 


To tJie Voters of { . county): 

The following is a true and correct list of all nominations to office certified to 
me pursuant to the provisions of chapter 2G3 of the Laws of 1890. 


Name, 

Residence.* 

Office to be filled. 

Party designating 
candidate. 











9 







(Signed.) 


Clerk of. . County. 


\Foxrn, of card to he prepared and printed in one or more languages by County 
Clerks, to he distributed in each voting district and hung in each voting booth 
election day.'] 

Instructions for the Guidance of Voters. 

A full set of ballots may be obtained by a voter of the ballot clerks, at the polls 
of the election on election day, upon the voter announcing his name to the elec¬ 
tion officers. On receiving his ballots the voter shall forthwith, and without 
leaving the inclosed space about the polls, retire alone to one of the voting booths 
and prepare his ballot, remaining in the booth three minutes. If, by reason of 
physical disability, he is unable to prepare his ballot without assistance, and so 
declares under oath to the inspectors of election, he may bring with him into the 
voting booth a person of his own selection to assist him in the preparation of his 
ballot. He may vote the ballot as printed, or write or paste upon it the name of 
any person for whom he desires to vote for any office. He may also take with him 
into the booth a printed paster ballot of his own selection or preparation, containing 
the names of all the offices to he filled and of the candidates therefor for ichom he 
desires to vote ; and he may paste such ballot on any of the official ballots below the- 
stud). The paster ballots must be of white paper, printed in type uniform with 
the official ballot, and so attached to the official ballot that when the ballot is 
folded no portion of the paster shall be visible. If the voter spoils any one of a 
set of ballots in the preparation of his ballot, he may receive another full set of 
ballots from the ballot clerks by returning to them the set of ballots containing 
the spoiled ballot; but not more than four full sets can be thus obtained. After 
preparing his ballot, and before leaving the booth, the voter must fold all the 
ballots of the set by folding: First. Lengthwise, up to the perforated line 

* If in a city, state street number of residence and place of business. 

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66 


Forms and Instructions. 


across the top. Second. Then folding crosswise, in such a way mat tlie contents 
of the ballot shall be concealed, and the stubs removed witliom exj^osing any of 
the contents. He shall then deliver the ballot which he desires to vote to the 
inspectors of election, who after removing the stub, shall deposit the same in the 
ballot-box; and the voter, after having thus voted, shall then deliver to the 
inspectors the remainder of the set of ballots delivered to him by the ballot 
clerk, and not voted. No voter can remain in a voting booth longer than ten 
minutes. 

§ 32. No person shall (1) falsely make, or make oath to, or fraudulently deface, 
or fraudulently destroy any certificate of nomination, or any part thereof; or (2) file 
or receive for filing any certificate of nomination knowing the same or any part 
thereof to be falsely made ; or (3) suppress any certificate of nomination which has 
been duly filed, or any part thereof; or (4) forge or falsely make the official indorse¬ 
ment of any ballot. Every person violating any of the provisions of this section 
shall be deemed guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof shall be punished 
by imprisonment in state prison not less than one year nor more than five years. 

§ 33. No person shall, during the election, remove or destroy any of the supplies 
or other conveniences placed in the booths or compartments for the purposes of 
enabling the voter to prepare his ballot, nor shall any person prior to or on the day 
of election deface or destroy any list of candidates posted in accordance with the 
provisions of this act. No person shall, during an election, remove, tear down or 
deface the cards printed for the instruction of voters. Every person willfully 
violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a 
misdemeanor. 

§ 35. No person shall do any electioneering on election day within any polling 
place, or in any public street or room, or in a public manner, within one hundred 
and fifty feet of any polling place. No person shall remove any official ballot from 
any polling place before the closing of polls. No person shall show his ballot, 
after it is prepared for voting, to any person, in such a way as to reveal the 
'contents, nor shall any person solicit the voter to show the same; nor shall any 
person (except an inspector of election), receive from any voter a ballot prepared 
for voting. No voter shall receive an official ballot from any other person than 
one of the ballot clerks having charge of the ballots, nor shall any person other 
than such ballot clerks deliver an official ballot to such voter. No voter shall place 
any mark upon his ballot by means of which it can be identified as the one voted 
by him. Every voter who does not vote or deliver, in the manner hereinbefore 
and in section twenty-five of this act provided, the ballots received by him from 
the ballot clerk, shall, before leaving the polling place or going outside the guard 
rail, return each such ballot to the ballot clerks. AVhoever shall violate any pro¬ 
vision of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. But nothing 
herein contained shall prevent any person from receiving or delivering an 
unofficial sample ballot, or from receiving, delivering and voting an unofficial 
ballot in the contingencies provided against by section twenty-one of this act. 



Forms and Instructions. 


67 


Acceptance of Nomination. 

'To the {Secretary of State or County Clerk of . County): 

Sir. — Please take notice that I accept the nomination for the office of.... 

tendered me by the (convention, primary or voters) of the.party, 

held at.or.189.. 

Dated. 

Respectfully, etc. 


Certificate of Appointment of Ballot Clerks. 

We certify that we have this day appointed A B and C D, two of our number, to 
serve as Ballot Clerks at this poll during the election this day. A B representing 
.the inspectors elected and C D the inspectors appointed. 

(Signed.). 


Dated. Ins-pectors of Election. 


Oath of Office Prescribed by Law for Elected Inspectors of Election. 

I do solemnly swear tliat I will support the Constitution of the United States, 
nnd the Constitution of the State of New York, and that I will faithfully dis¬ 
charge the duties of the office of. 

according to the best of my ability. 

And I do further solemnly swear that I have not, directly or indirectly, paid, 
offered or promised to pay, contributed, or offered or promised to contribute, any 
money or other valuable thing, as a consideration or reward for the giving or 
withholding a vote at the election at which I was elected to said office, and have 
not made any promise to influence the giving or withholding any such vote. 

(Signed.). 

Subscribed and sworn before me, \ 
this.day of.189.. ^ 


Inspector of Election. 


Oath of Office Prescribed by Law for Appointed Inspectors of Election, 
Ballot Clerks and Clerks of Election. 

I do solemnly swear I will support the Constitution of the United States and 
the Constitution of the State of Xew York, and that I will faithfully discharge 
the duties of the office of (Inspector of Election or Ballot Clerk, or Clerk of Election) 
according to the best of my ability. 

(Signed.). 

Subscribed and sworn to before me, } 
this.day of.189.. ^ 


Inspector of Election. 
























68 


FoBMS and L\STJi C/CTIOiYS. 


Oath to be Administered by Inspectors of Election to Voters Unable, 
by Reasons of Physical Disability, to Prepare their Ballots. 

You do solemnly swear and declare that, by reason of physical disability, you are 
unable to prepaie your ballot to be voted at this election without assistance, and 
you have selected IM..to assist you in the preparation of your ballot. 


[Ib be filed with County Clerk, or officer or hoard which prepared the ballots voted.'\ 

Ballot Clerks’ Certificate of Ballots Cast. 

This is to certify that at the.election, held at the.district poll in 

the Town of., County of., on., 189 the whole number 

of ballots of each kind voted, were 

(Democratic or other party)... 

(Republican or other party). 

(Prohibition or other party). 

(Equal Rights or other party). 

Total. 


The number of ballots of each kind delivered to voters were 

(Democratic).. 

(Republican).. 

( . ) . 

( . ) . 

Total. 


Tlie number of spoiled ballots of each kind returned : 

(Democratic). 

(Republican).... 

( . ) . 

( . ) . 

Total. 


The number of ballots of each kind not delivered to voters; 

(Democratic). 

(Republican). 

( . ) .. ; . 

.)... 


Total 

































































Forms and Instructions. 


69 


The number of detached stubs returned by voters: 
. Total. 

(Signed.). 


Dated 


Ballot Clerks. 


Town Clerks or City Clerks Receipt for Official Ballots Received from 

County Clerk. 

Deceived of.Clerk of.county, 

One package of official ballots, containing.ballots (.party.) 

One package of official ballots, containing.ballots (.party.) 

One package of official ballots, containing.ballots (.party.) 


Dated 


Signed 


{Town or City) Clerk. 


Election Inspector’s Receipt for Official Ballots Received from Town or 

City Clerk. 

Received of.(city or town) Clerk. 

One package of official ballots, containing.ballots (.party.) 

One package of official ballots, containing.ballots (.party.) 

One package of official ballots, containing.ballots (.party.) 


Dated 


Signed 


Inspectors Election. 
Dist. Poll {Town or City). 
















































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Ballot Reform Law. 


A. 


Acknowledgment and AfiRdavit. 

form of, for signers to certificates.. 62 

Aldermen: 

list of candidates sent to. 16 

posting of, by. 16 

Appointment: 

ballot clerks.23, 24 

inspectors. 36 

poll-clerks. 36 

Ballot-boxes: 

arrangement of... 24 

ballots cast for candidates, box for. 21 

ballots, how deposited in. 27 

distance between, and guard-rail. 25 

expense of providing. 25 

furnishing of. 25 

unvoted ballots, box for. 27 

Ballot Clerks: 

ballots placed in charge of. 25 

designation and appointment of.23, 24 

duties of. 25 

form for appointment of. . 67 

certificates by... 68 

oath of. 67 

record of ballots delivered by. 25, 28 

spoiled ballots, replacing of, by. 28 

statement by, accounting for ballots. 28 

vacancies in office of. 23 

Ballots: 

county clerk to provide. 18 

when to be in possession of ... 18 































72 Index to Ballot Reform Law. 

Ballots — Continued. page. 

defective ballots, marking and preservation of. 30 

delivery of, penalty for neglect. 31 

destroying or suppressing. 31 

kinds of ballots. 19 

official ballots. 19 

canvass of... 30 

contents of. 19 

delivery of, to town and city clerks. 21 

errors and omissions in, correction of. 21 

expense of printing and distribution. 11 

folding of, by voter. 27 

form for. 20 

furnishing of, by town and city clerks. 22 

indorsement on .... .. 20 

forging. 31 

names of local candidates on. 20 

names of office only on. . 18 

when only printed on. 20 

names on, approval of. 19 

number to be furnished election districts. 21 

paper and ink for. 20 

preparation of, by voter. 26 

receipts for delivery of. 22 

form for. 69 

receiving and depositing by inspectors. 27 

record of ballots delivered to voter. 25, 28 

removal of, from polling places. 32 

showing of, after preparation by voter. 32 

size. 20 

style of printing. 19 

stub of. 19 

stubs of, how numbered. 20 

paster ballots, use of. 26 

receipts for delivery of. 22 

form for. G9 

sample ballots.18, 19 

use of. 27 

when printed and in possession of clerk . 18 

spoiled ballots, replacing and preserving of. 28 

unofficial ballots, preparation of, by voter. 28 

use of. 22 

unvoted ballots, delivery of, to inspectors. 27 

disposal of... 27 

preservation of. 28 















































Index to Ballot Reform Law. 73 

Ballots — Continued. page. 

unvoted ballots, statement as to. 28 

stubs of. 28 

preservation of. 28 

where kept at elections. 25 


Booths; 

See “Voting Booths.” 
Brooklyn: 


ballot-boxes in, who to provide. 25 

ballots in, preparation and distribution of. 33 

booths, etc., in, who to provide. 25 

nominations other than by party organizations in. 13 

Candidates: 

list of, defacing, etc.... 31 

errors in, correction of. 21 

form for. 64 

posting of. 16 

publication of.• 15 

form for. 65 

sent to aldermen and town clerks. 16 

local candidates, names of, on ballots . .. . 20 

names of, on ballots. 29 

nomination of.12, 13 

See, also, “Nominations.” 

Canvass of votes: 

order and manner of canvassing. 30 

Cards of Instruction: 

defacing, etc., penalty for. 31 

how provided. 30 

posting of. 30 

printing and contents of. 30 

Challenges: 

on application for ballots. 26 

when offering vote. 26 

Challengers: 

provision for. 26 

City Clerk: 

ballots, delivery of, to. ... 21 

distribution of, by, on election day. 22 

preparation and furnishing of, by. 22 

receipts for, form of. 69 

to give. 22 

compensation for services. 35 

duties of, clerks of common councils to perform. 35 




































74 Index to Ballot Reform La w. 


Constitutional Amendments; page. 

publication of questions to be submitted by....... 

Corporations: 

refusal by, of grant of absence to employes. 

County Clerks: 

ballots, delivery of, by, to town and city clerks. 21 

number, to be furnished districts by.. 21 

providing and printing, duty of, as to. 18 

cards of instruction, to provide. . 30 

certificates of nominations, filed with.12, 14 

compensation of, for services. 35 

constitutional amendments, duty of, as to. 18 

errors and omissions, correction of, by... 21 

list of candidates, sent by, form for... 64 

to furnish aldermen and clerks. 16 

nominations, certain, certified to.16, 18 

list of, form for. 65 

publication of, by. 15 

receipts for ballots delivered, filed with.. 22 

Declination: 

nominations when void by. 16 

notice of declination of nomination. 16 

Election Districts; 

alteration of. 25 

ballots for, number of. 21 

Electioneering: 

restrictions on, near polling places. 82. 


Electors : 

See “Voters.” 
Errors and Omissions : 


correction of. 21 

Employes: 

entitled to absence for voting. 32 

Employers : 

refusal of grant of absence, etc., to employes, penalty for. 32 

Forms: F. 

acknowledgment and affidavit. 62 

ballot clerks, appointment of. 67 

certificates of, as to ballots cast. 68 






























Index to Ballot Reform Law. 75 

Forms — Continued. page. 

certificates of nominations by party conventions. 59, 60, 62 

other than by party conventions, etc. 61 

list of nominations to be published. . 66- 

nominations, acceptance of. 67 

oath of ballot clerk. 67 

clerks of elections. ... 67 

disabled voters. 68 

inspectors of election... 67 

poster or list sent to town clerk or aldermen.. 64 

receipt for ballots received from county clerks. 69 

received by inspectors. 69 

Fulton and Hamilton Counties *. 

member of assembly of, certificate of nomination of. 12 

nominations other than party organizations in..... 13 


Guard-rail; 

admission within, regulated. .. 24 

expense of providing. 25 

how constructed and placed. 25 

Inspectors: 

appointment of. ... . 36- 

ballot clerks, designation and appointment of, by. 23, 24 

ballots, not to deposit certain. 29 

receiving of ballots by. 27 

challenge of applicant for ballots, proceedings before. 26 

duty of. 28 

election of. . 35 

form for oath of. 67 

number of. 23 

vacancies in office of. 23 


Kings County; 

nominations other than by party organizations in. 13- 

IST 

Newspapers: 

selection of, for publication of list of nominations... 15^ 

New York City: 

ballot boxes in, who to provide. 25 

ballots in, preparation and distribution. 33 


booths, etc., in, who to provide. 2fi 

nominations other than by party organizations in. 13 

senator of fifth senate district, certificate of nomination of, filed in. 13 



































7(3 Index to Ballot Reform Law. 

Nominations: page. 

acceptance of, form for. 67 

certificates of, by party organizations. 12 

by voters..-. 13 

defacement of. . 30 

falsely made, filing and receiving of... 30 

filing of.. 12 

time for... . 14 

forms for. 59, GO, 61, 62, 63 

names on, restricted. 14 

objections to validity of. . 17 

preservation of... . 14 

signing of, restricted. .. 14 

suppression of duly filed. . 30 

validity of. 17 

declination of... 16 

list of, publication of. 15 

form for. 65 

party organizations, may make. . . . 11 

town and village officers, how made. 33 

vacancies in, how filled... 17 

voters, may make. 13 

Tasters: 

See “ Ballots.” 

Penalties: 

for violations of act.30, 31, 32 

Poll Clerk: 

appointment of. 30 

form for oath of. 67 

number on stubs, to note. 25 

oath of disabled voters, to note. , .. 29 

voters’ names, noted and numbered by. 25 

Polling Places: 

arrangement of. 26 

ballot-box for. 21 

electioneering in, prohibited. 32 

not to be within 150 feet of. 32 

guard-rail at . 24 

voting booths at. 24 

See, also, “ Voting Booths.” 

Public Officers; 

neglect of duty by, penalty for. 31 





































IxDEX TO Ballot Reform Law. 


6 i 


Richmond County: 

senator of fifth senate district, certificate of nomination of. where filed... 13- 

Secretary of State: 

certificates of nomination, filing of, with. 

preservation of, by.. 

constitutional amendments, duty of, as to. 

nominations, certification of, by. 

vacancies in. duty of, as to. 

Supreme Court: 

validity of certificates of nomination, order of, as to, 

Town Clerks: T. 

ballots, delivery of, to. 

distribution of, by, on election day. 

preparation and furnishing of, by.:.. 

receipts for, to give. 

form of.. 

compensation of, for services. 

list of candidates, posting of, by. 

sent to. 

Town Elections: 

application of act to. 

Vacancies: 


inspectors... 24 

nominations, how filled. 17 

Village Elections: 


application of act, as to, 
Voters: 


announcement of name by, to officers. 2.> 

assistance, not to receive, unless, etc... 29 

ballots, delivery of, to. 26 

folding of, by. 27 

marks on, not to place. 32 

preparation of, by.26, 29 

reception of, by, from ballot clerk only. 32 

showing of, prepared by. 32^ 

booths, occupancy of, by. 2& 

challenge of. upon application for ballots. 26 

disabled voters, assistance for. 29 

assistants to, not to influence. 29 

not to divulge name. 29 

oath of, form for. 68> 


12, 14 
. 14 

.. 18 
15 
.. 17 

. . 17 


22 


22 

69 

35 

16 

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78 Index to Ballot Reform Law. 

Voters — Continued. page. 

employes, entitled to absence for voting. 32 

manner of voting by.25, 27 

names voted by, revealing of. 31 

not to divulge. 29 

paster ballots, may use. . 26 

spoiled ballots . 28 

unofRcial ballots, preparation of, by. 28 

unvoted ballots, to return. 27, 32 

Votes: 

canvass of. 30 

See, also, “Ballots.” 

Voting Booths: 

arrangement of. 24 

construction of. . 24 

expense of providing. 25 

guard-rail, how placed in reference to. 24 

New York and Brooklyn. 25 

number of. 25 

supplies for. 24 

destroying. 31 

who to provide.. 24 

Watchers 

revealing names voted, penalty for... 31 





















INDBX 

TO THE 

General Registration Law, Corrupt Practices Law, Etc. 


Bets or Wagers: Page. 

prohibited. 39 

Board of Registry: 

appointment of electors, in place of members of. 43 

challenges, to entertain. 46, 49 

, clerk of board.. 49 

compensation of members. 49 

correction of lists by, how compelled. 47 

duty of, in new districts.:. 46 

in preparation of lists. 44 

erasure of names on lists by. 47 

meetings of. 43 

meetings of, public. 49 

Saturday half-holiday not to affect. 51 

when held ... 43 

new districts, duty of boards of. 46 

oath, when to administer, to applicant . 47 

oaths, etc., may administer. 50 

order at meetings, powers of, to preserve. 49 

organization of. 43 

placing of names on list of voters by. 44 

stationery, etc., for.,. 49 

vacancies, manner of filling. 43 

Bribery; 

acceptance of bribes. . 38 

conviction of, effect of. 41 

forbidden at elections . 37 

offenders against provisions as to, competent witnesses. 41 

punishment for. 41 

what constitutes. 37 

Brooklyn : 

general registry law not applicable to. 42 

registration act amended. 52 

































80 Index to General Registration Law^ etc. 

Candidates; page. 

expenses of, statements of, to be filed, etc. 40 

refusal to file, penalty for. 41 

Challenge : 

oath to be taken upon, at elections. 48 

of applicant for registry. 46 

of persons on list of voters... 48 

right of persons to challenge... 48 

word “ challeuge,” when to be placed opposite name. 48 

Cities: 

boards of registry in, meetings of. 42 

list of voters, how prepared in. .,. 44 

Corporations : 

forfeiture of charter of. 40 

influencing voters, etc., by, prohibited. 40 

pay envelopes, use of, by, to influence voters, prohibited. 39 

County Clerk: 

convictions for bribery, duty as to. 41 

registration act and blanks, distribution of, by. 51 

statement of election expenses filed with. 40 

TT 

Election Expenses: 

provision for payment of, by counties, etc., in 1890. 57 

statement of, by candidates. 40 

filing of. 40 

refusal to file, penalty for. 41 

Election Laws: 

certain, repealed. 51 

certain, not affected. 51 

pending actions under, prosecution of. 53 

when to take effect. 53 

Elections: 

challenges at. 48 

bribery forbidden at. 39 

bets or wagers on, prohibited. 89 

Elective Franchise: 

crimes against, defined. 43 

interference with free exercise of, prohibited. 37 

Electors: 

information to be given by. 49 

may challenge. 49 

statement required of, at registration. 48 

See, also, “Voters,” 

































Index to General Registration Law^ etc. 81 

Employes: page. 

iuliueucin^ of, by use of pay envelopes, etc., prohibited. 39 

Employers: 

pay envelopes, use of by, to influence voters, etc., prohibited. 39 

bills or placards, posting of certain by, i)rohibited. 39 

Inspectors of Election: 

board of registry, to constitute. 42 

challenges, duty of as to. 48 

checking of names, by. 48 

oaths, etc., may administer. 50 

original register of voters, to have, at elections. 48 

statements may be required by. 48 

General Registry Law: 

completed list of voters, known as. 44 

violations of, penalties for. 50 

when not applicable. 42 

when to take effect. 52 

Liquors: 

not allowed at place of registr}'. 43 

not allowed at polling-place. 44 

List of Voters: 

arrangement of, for additional names. 45 

certification of. 45 

copies of, members of board of registry to retain. 46 

to be posted. 46 

correction of, how compelled. 47 

custody of. 46 

erasures of names from. 47 

form of. 45 

placing of names thereon.,. 44 

preparation of. 44 

See, also, “Register of Voters.” 

Oaths: O. 

administering of. 50 

Pay Envelopes : p*. 

use of, prohibited. 39 

Penalties : 

for violations of corrupt practices act . 41 

general registry act . 50 

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82 Index to General Registration Law, etc. 


Placards: 

posting of, in factories, etc. 39 

Poll Clerks; 

entries on lists by. 48 

Poll Lists: 

certified copies of, when delivered to board... 46 

delivery of lists of preceding election to registry board. 46 

entries in. 48 

Polling Places 

not to be where liquors are sold, etc... 44 

spirituous liquors not to be sold at. 44 


Registry, Boards of: 

See “Boards of Begistry.” 

Registry Acts: 

certain, not affected. 51 

repealed. 51 

pending actions under, prosecution of. 52 

See, also, “ General Registry Law.” 

Register of Voters: 

accessible to public. 49 

certified copies of, filed. 48 

checking names on. 48 

filing of. 48 

list of voters, when completed, known as. 44 

names to be checked on. 48 

original register to be at polls. 48 

preparation of. 44 

See, also, “ List of Voters,” 

Right of Suffrage: 

electors, when excluded from,,, .. 41 


School Elections: 

general registry law, not to apply to. 42 

Secretary of State: 

blanks, preparation and distribution of, by. 51 

registration act, to furnish county clerks. 51 

statement of election expenses filed with.. 40 


Town Meetings: 

general registry law not to apply to 




42 


























\ 


Index to General Registration Law^ etc. 83 

Village Election: ^ ‘ page. 

general registry law, not to apply to. 42 

Voters: 

bets or wagers by, prohibited. . 39 

bribery of, prohibited. 87 

challenge of, on application for registry. 4G 

at election. 48 

free exercise of elective franchise by, not to be interfered with. 39 

intimidation of, prohibited. 39 

personal appearance of, for registration. 44 

registry list of. 44 

statements may be required of, at elections. 48 

statement required of, on application for registry. 47 

unregistered, not to vote. 48 






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